Title: Plugins not Showing
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plugins not Showing

 *  [mrswoelders](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrswoelders/)
 * (@mrswoelders)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-showing-3/)
 * I have a Multi-site/Network running and when I go to my Admin Dashboard my plugins
   show 28, but as soon as I go to my “sites” there are only 16. I am missing some.
   They disappeared. I am so confused. I have even tried to deactivate different
   ones (like WP Security, because it may have conflicted with WP Google Fonts –
   but it didn’t work) thinking there might be a conflict. But alas I am back to
   square one. What do I do to get them back?

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 *  [Phil Erb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philerb/)
 * (@philerb)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-showing-3/#post-3753208)
 * Are the ones that are missing ones that you’ve “network activated”? If they’ve
   been activated at the network level, then they won’t show up in the plugins list
   for individual sites in the network. That’s because they can’t be activated/deactivated
   at the site level, since they’re activated at the network level.
 *  Thread Starter [mrswoelders](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrswoelders/)
 * (@mrswoelders)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-showing-3/#post-3753215)
 * I understand what you are saying. I was told by the guy at BlueHost it was in
   regards to the plugins that I have and that some plugins don’t span the Multi-
   User/Network. He told me to email the specific creators to ask for information.
   The biggest thing, is that I can’t use WP Google Fonts in my sites because it
   is not working on my sites, even though it says activated on my admin level. 
   It only works on my home website, where it was originally loaded when I created
   it first, prior to “going” Network. Any other thoughts?
 *  [Phil Erb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philerb/)
 * (@philerb)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-showing-3/#post-3753217)
 * Just for clarification – is the WP Google Fonts plugin activated on the main 
   site or in the Network Admin?
 *  [Phil Erb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philerb/)
 * (@philerb)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-showing-3/#post-3753252)
 * I did a little testing with the WP Google Fonts plugin on multisite and I can
   confirm that it worked in my testing. Let’s check to see how it’s activated on
   your sites.
 * In your dashboard, click **My Sites** in the top navigation bar and click **Network
   Admin**. This is the network admin, not to be confused with the dashboards for
   the individual sites. Now click **Plugins** in the left navigation.
 * Does it say **Network Activate** or **Network Deactivate** under the WP Google
   Fonts plugin?
 * If it says **Network Deactivate**, then it is activated for all of your sites.
   Visit each site’s dashboard and you should see **Google Fonts** under **Settings**.
   In this case, you will not see “WP Google Fonts” in the plugins list on the dashboard
   of the individual sites, because it is activated at the network level.
 * If it says **Network Activate**, then it is not activated at the network level
   and you can either activate it on each site where you want that feature (it will
   show up in the plugins list on each sites’ dashboard) or you can network activate
   it to make the feature available for all sites.

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Phil Erb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philerb/)
 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-showing-3/#post-3753252)
 * Status: not resolved

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