Title: Admin Doc Wrong?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Admin Doc Wrong?

 *  [rvbinder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvbinder/)
 * (@rvbinder)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-doc-wrong/)
 * In the help for Multisite, My Sites.Settings, click on the provided link:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Network_Admin_Settings_Screen](http://codex.wordpress.org/Network_Admin_Settings_Screen)
 * Under Menu Settings, it says
    …
 * > 1. Click on System Admin > Options 2. Select Enable administration menus for
   > Plugins 3. Click Save Changes
 * I cannot find any menu item labled “System Admin” or “Options”.
 * Is this doc obsolete for 3.8? Where is this function in 3.8?

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 *  [jkhongusc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkhongusc/)
 * (@jkhongusc)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-doc-wrong/#post-4506772)
 * That entry is old. The ‘Enable administration menus’ option is inside the network
   setting that the page is referring to. It is the very last option.
 * Network Admin -> Settings -> Network Settings
 * James
 *  Thread Starter [rvbinder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvbinder/)
 * (@rvbinder)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-doc-wrong/#post-4506777)
 * I’m trying to enable plugins on member sites. I checked the “Pludins” box, but
   member site admins cannot install site-specific plugins. So, it looks like the
   documentation is both out of date and wrong.
 *  [jkhongusc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkhongusc/)
 * (@jkhongusc)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-doc-wrong/#post-4506779)
 * I do not believe that site admin have the ability to install plugins. The documentation
   does not say that either. It states ‘This means your users won’t have access 
   to the plugin admin panel inside their dashboard unless you first enable access
   to plugins network wide.’
 * Once the plugins are installed by a super (network) admin, the super admin can
   allow site admins to enable/disable plugins. When plugins are “network activated”,
   the plugin is active and a site admin cannot de-active.
 * Hope that clears up your understanding of plugin management.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-doc-wrong/#post-4506781)
 * > I do not believe that site admin have the ability to install plugins.
 * Correct. NETWORK admin can install plugins.

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-doc-wrong/#post-4506781)
 * Status: not resolved

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