September 3, 2010 
Plugin Commander is a plugin for managing WordPress Multisite plugins that are activated network-wide. If you have a large Multisite network, you may want to consider installing this one. It has recently been updated for WordPress 3.0.
Features of Plugin Commander:
- Mark any plugin in the plugins directory to be automatically activated for new blogs.
- Mass activate or deactivate a plugin for all existing blogs.
- Choose which plugins users can activate and deactivate through Manage->Plugins
- Activate and deactivate plugins for specific blogs, even if the blog owner is not allowed to control those plugins.
Download Plugin Commander at the WordPress.org plugin repository.
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Also worth mentioning is that someone took Aaron’s MP Plugin Commander and made it Wp 3 compatible. In my opinion it is far superior to Plugin Commander. See here for the story and the download link: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-management-vs-plugin-commander-in-wp3?replies=8
The one I’m referring to was updated from this one: http://firestats.cc/wiki/WPMUPluginCommander
which has always been free, if I’m not mistaken … ?? Anyone feel free to chime in here. ;)
You are absolutely right. I was just adding the info that Plugin Commander’s competitor is now also wp 3.0 compatible and a better choice than Plugin Commander.
i’m relatively new to this and there seems to be a ton of information, but with the recent merger or wpmu into wordpress the information seems to be a bit disjointed…i’m interested in running a wp multisite network with the sites being all buddypress sites….could you please recommended a good starting point for reference?
Interesting article, I invite others to read :)