July 15, 2010 Whether you’re new to WordPress Multisite or have been using it for years, you’ll want to check out these new tools written specifically for use with Multisite 3.0. Many of these plugins help to make your Multisite network more user friendly and easier to manage. You’ll also find greater levels of multisite-specific privacy options and CMS tweaks.
Moderate New Blogs
This plugin flags new blogs in SuperAdmin >> Sites as “Awaiting Moderation” so that you can leave site registration open and retain the ability to moderate new blogs. No registrations slip through without your approval.
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Toggle Meta Boxes
WordPress has quite a few options that many users don’t need and may never use. Simplify the Post, Page, Link, and Comment editing forms by toggling the meta boxes on or off through the plugin’s options. You can also toggle the Quick Edit buttons, Media buttons, Screen Options and Help links.
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Menus
This plugin lets you enable or disable WP3 Multisite backend menus. It adds options to toggle administration menus at Super Admin >> Optons page under “Menu Settings”. You’ll be able to disable the Deltete Blog, Permalinks, Import, Media Upload, Add Users and Themes menus to simplify the dashboard for users.
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Multisite Switcher
This plugin adds a simple dropdown menu in the administration header that allows you (and every site user) to switch between the administration of every site he is a member of (and so work for super-admin, admin, contributors,…).
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Proper Network Activation
This plugin improves network activation of plugins so that when activating or deactivating it triggers the de/activation hook on all sites in the network. It also triggers the activation hook for all active network plugins on that site when creating a new site.
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Multisite User Management
This plugin gives you the ability to assign users a default role for each of your sites. You can assign different roles for each site or no role if you want a site to be kept private.
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More Privacy Options
This plugin adds three more levels of privacy to the Options >> Privacy page: Blog visible to any logged in community member, blog visible only to registered users of blog, and blog visible only to administrators.
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Exclude Plugins
This plugin will allow you to selectively show or hide certain plugins from the normal WordPress user in Multisite, as opposed to showing or hiding all plugins at once.
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Activate Update Services
For some reason WordPress removes the Update Services ability (under Settings – Writing) when you create a Multisite network. Activate this plugin to get it back.
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WP Multi Network
Turn your multi-site installation of WordPress into many multi-site networks, all surrounding one central user base. WP Multi Network allows super admins to create new network collections of sites, allowing for infinitely extensible site, network, and domain arrangements.
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Enable Multisite
This plugin lets you enable Multisite in WordPress 3.0 without the process of digging into the code. After you install it takes just one click to turn it on Multisite functionality for your site.
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Blue Network Plugins
This plugin separates the network plugins from the rest and highlights them in blue at the very top. You’ll be able to see at a glance which plugins are operating sitewide.
These plugins have been necessary to run a multi site network.Thanks!
I want to give a special shout out for the “Enable Multisite” plugin for getting me started.Regular dummies like me can run WPMU…
You’re lucky to have found this before the effort to get up and running!
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Thank you for a good list of plugins.
Do you or any one else reading this know if there is a plugin like “Exclude Plugins” but for Themes?
Ok, I found the answer to my last question. It’s already built in to WordPress.
Instructions for anyone that missed it:
1. Inactivate themes that shouldn’t be active globala on Super Admin – Themes
2. Activate inactive theme for specific blog on Super Admin – Sites – Edit
The theme is now available under Appearance for the blog.
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thank to this interestinf list!
I wanted to manage my sites but I do not know how to. With Enable Multisite, I think that will be ok.
Thank you for these plugins.
Thanks for the list. Very useful indeed.
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Thanks, some of those will be really useful to me. Especially Multisite Switcher. Why is it so hard to swap between blogs?
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I will add 2 of this plugins in my multi site network. Thanks for this.
Here you have a step by step tutorial for the WP Multi Network Plugin.
Hope it works for you.
http://www.uv.mx/personal/gvera/2010/11/19/how-to-use-the-wp-multi-network-plugin/
Excellent collection. Is there any way to disable the multi site option
Hi, i have different sites on different domains.
forexample
### site1 (site1.com)
my modifications (footer,translate mods,sidebars,adsense codes…eg)
### site 2 (site2.com)
My questions;
1-how can i use site 1 all settings with all wordpress modifications?
2-how can i combine them with wp MU?
Does Exclude Plugins hidde them before activation of the new site or just after the registration, because I want some plugin to be hidden to users immediately after they register new site??
So far I’ve had to deactivate only after the user creates a new site.