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How To Exclude Certain Plugins From Normal User Subsites In WordPress Multisite ?

You can exclude certain plugins from appearing in subsite dashboard’s plugins menu in WordPress Multisite installation. Or you can limit those plugins to VIP users and Super Admins.

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How To Completely Disable Site Delete Option In A WordPress Multisite Network ?

In a WordPress multisite network each subsite provides a delete site option in dashboard’s tools menu. This option is used for subsite admins for deleting their personal subdomain/subdirectory based website of weblog from the WordPress network of sites. This tutorial explains you how you can easily remove this site delete option for subsite admins and make subsite deletion limited to network administrators.

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How To Easily Display BuddyPress Activity Tag Cloud ?

BuddyPress Activity tab displays the site wide list of status updates and other activity streams. This article explains you how you can get tags from each new blog posts activity and display the most commonly used ones.

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Quickly Access To Super Admin Resources In WordPress Multisite Network

Multisite Toolbar Additions is a powerful, light weight WordPress plugin that simply adds some very useful admin links in toolbar. It also provides support for various popular third party plugins listed in WP plugin’s page. With this plugin you get quick links to visit admin pages easily. For example: you can access the ‘Nav Menu’ Settings of a sub site/blog using your admin bar from frontend or backend of any subsite.

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Display A Fancy PopUp Globally, Per Site Or On Specific URLs In WordPress

WordPress PopuUp is a fee fancy PopUp plugin which is compaticle with both WP Single and WP Multi Site installations. It is one of the most effective way of advertising your mailing list, special offer or for displaying Ads via javascript ‘pop over’ in your WordPress based website.

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How To Limit Blogs Per User In WordPress Multisite Network Installations ?

When you open blogs creation for your website members then what common problem arrives is that they can create as many blogs they want and by default WordPress doesn’t provides you any feature to limit blogs per user. Well to resolve thus problem network admins use a popular WordPress plugin called Limit Blogs Per User, with this plugin you can easily limit blogs per users in your WordPress Multisite Network.

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How To Display Most Recent Posts Across Your WordPress Multisite Network ?

You can easily display most recent blog posts across your WordPress Multisite Installation including recent posts from all subsites and main site of your WordPress Multisite Network.

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How To Add Ability To Search Across All Blogs In WordPress Multisite Network ?

Default WordPress search only allows your website users to search anything locally on particular website. If you are a network administrator you can easily enable a Global Search  that searches the given keywords in all subsites of your multisite network by post title, post content or post author.

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NS Cloner Pro: Powerful Site Cloning Plugin For Creating Fully Configured Sites In WordPress Multisite Networks

Few days ago we discussed about NS Cloner plugin that allows WordPress multisite netwrk admins to clone existing WordPress sites to completely new ones with same old settings in just a few seconds.

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How To Set Defaults For All New Blogs Created In WordPress Multisite Network ?

In WordPress Multisite Network WordPres automatically uses preset defaults in all newly created subsites. This sometimes creates problem when you want to use your own default settings for each and every blog created in your multisite network.

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WordPress Multisite Robots.txt Manager For Easy Network Wide Management Of All Robots.txt Files

Here is a tiutorial for quick and easy feature that allows you to manage your WordPress Multisite Network files in an advanced and easy way without opening any cPanel or FTP interface but first thing you should know Multisite Robots.txt Manager is a free plugin only for WordPress Multisite Networks which is needed to be network activated which means you cannot use it by activating it in individual subsites of your WordPress Network Install.

Installation & Usage: Install and network activate Multisite Robots.txt Manager. Upon activation visit your Network Admin Dashboard -> Settings -> MS Robot.txt and start playing with robot.txt files all over your multisite network.  The plugin provides you following useful features:

  • You can instantly add Sitemaps URL’s to all your robots.txt files.
  • Allows you to manage all sites from Network Administration Area.
  • You can quickly publish preset robots.txt files to your Network or a subsite.
  • Allows you to manage a single Website through the Website Settings Admins.
  • You can run mass update the all sites across your Multisite the Network in just a click.
  • You can easily create custom and unique robots.txt files for each subsite present on your network.

Following screenshot shows this plugin’s option page showing a quick view of various hidden sections like presets & examples, plugin usage:

More plugin’s screenshots are available here.

You should know that d

  • efault “Network Wide” robots.txt file is not live robots.txt file. Deactivating this plugin doesn’t change or remove the preset option instead it stops displaying the plugins robot.txt files. But deleting this plugin removes all settings from your database for all your sites.

For making Robots.txt file live for a Website, either click “Publish to Network” button or select website using dropdown then click “Change Sites” buttons. Now adjust the displayed robots.txt file and click the “Update this Website” button.

Both methods simply publishes robots.txt file to Website(s) and make it live. Clicking the [ view robots.txt ] link next to the Websites dropdown shows the changes within your web-browser. Visit Plugin’s Website for documentaion and user guide here.

List Latest Posts From Specific Tag, Category Or Custom Taxonomy From Across WordPress Multisite Network

Earlier we have discussed about WordPress widgets that allows you to display posts from selected tags or categories in your WordPress site. Now this posts is about a new WordPress widget that allows you to show recent blog posts from specific tag, category or anyother custom taxonomy by pulling them across your network and showing them on widget.

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Easily Display Your Blog Author Avatars List Anywhere In Your WordPress Site

Bloggers running a multi-author WordPress blog can display avatar list of their site authors using a widget or shortcode. Here are two WordPress plugins that allows you to do so very easily.

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Increase Readability By Turning Web Pages Calm And Clean. Now Use It In WordPress, Android, Google Chrome, Tablets And More

Easily convert any webpage to a clean minimalist view, you can read it or you can add it to your reading list for reading it some other time. Readability.Com is a free online service that lets you read any article on Internet in a clean clatter free format. You can use it in Google Chrome, Smartphone, Android, Tablet etc. If you are a WordPress user then you can add its button in your website.

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Top 12 Free Plugins For Better Management Of WordPress Multisite Networks

If you are running a WordPress Multisite network then you might be looking for the plugins that hides some default WordPress features for your client sites. Here are some popular and useful list of plugins that allows you to manage your network in a better way.

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Log The IP Address Of Newly Registered Users In WordPress Multisite

Sometime people create multiple fake accounts in your WordPress site like they do in Facebook. You can fight back by logging their IP addresses and this can be done easily by using Register IP plugin in your site.

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Prevent Unauthenticated Users From Using Registered User’s Email While Commenting In Your WordPress Site

By default someone can comment on your site using your site’s member’s email. Comment form has email text field, one can just type in an email of your site’s registered user and post comment on your WordPress site as him.

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Enforce Automatic Creation Of Links From Words Across WordPress Multisite Network

Easily enforce automatic creation of links over given words across WordPress Multisite installation. WordPress plugins repository is having a simple, light and powerful plugin that allows you to do so. It works in single WordPress installations too.

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How To Auto Add Users To Sites In A WordPress Multisite Network?

Join My Multisite plugin provides each site in WordPress multisite with three new options for new memberships on their sites:

  1. Auto-add users
  2. Have a ‘Join This Site’ button in a widget
  3. Keep things exactly as they are

How To Disable Certain Dashboard Menus On Subsites In WordPress Multisite Install ?

If you don’t like certain menus and their features to be used by subsite users in WordPress multisite install then you may easily disable them. For example: if you don’t want your subsite users to upload media then you can disable media library menu from dashboard. Doing this they won’t be seeing media library menu in their admin section and even if they try to get their they will be seeing an error message.

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