Title: Error upon adding new site
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Error upon adding new site

 *  [Palpatine1976](https://wordpress.org/support/users/palpatine1976/)
 * (@palpatine1976)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-upon-adding-new-site/)
 * I’m getting the error:
 * ERROR: You must activate this plugin from the network dashboard.
 * whenever I add a new site in a multisite setup when Proper Network Activation
   is Network Enabled. It looks like the site still gets created ok, but I wonder
   what is causing this error? I have lots of plugins installed & network-enabled(
   and a couple installed but NOT enabled at any level).
 * Perhaps PNA is trying to ‘update’ a deactivated plugin, and that’s the error?
 * Not critical, but thought I’d report it. Great plugin and I agree it should be
   part of Core 🙂
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/proper-network-activation/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/proper-network-activation/)

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 *  [jw60610](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jw60610/)
 * (@jw60610)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-upon-adding-new-site/#post-3902464)
 * I had the exact same issue, today. I deactivated each plugin until I found that
   it was PNA that was causing the error.
 * Aside from the message, which I ignored, everything seems to be ok. But I’m a
   little hesitant, considering.
 * Should maybe we deactivate the plugin after we activate a new plugin, or will
   that defeat the purpose?
 * Thanks very much, and would appreciate some feedback if possible. Otherwise, 
   great plugin, seems like a very useful fix.
 *  Thread Starter [Palpatine1976](https://wordpress.org/support/users/palpatine1976/)
 * (@palpatine1976)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-upon-adding-new-site/#post-3902531)
 * BUMP! Bug still present… does anyone know if the plugin author monitors this 
   forum?
 *  [TeaMike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/teamike/)
 * (@teamike)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-upon-adding-new-site/#post-3902536)
 * this problem persists. It is grave because it scares away new users from registering
   a blog. Please can we have a fix?
 *  [jay_allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jay_allen/)
 * (@jay_allen)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-upon-adding-new-site/#post-3902542)
 * See answer here: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-total-cache-error-when-activating](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-total-cache-error-when-activating)
 *  Thread Starter [Palpatine1976](https://wordpress.org/support/users/palpatine1976/)
 * (@palpatine1976)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-upon-adding-new-site/#post-3902543)
 * Sadly the PNA error occurs even if W3TC is not installed.
 *  [jay_allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jay_allen/)
 * (@jay_allen)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-upon-adding-new-site/#post-3902544)
 * Oops, my mistake. I misread your error message.

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 * [Proper Network Activation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/proper-network-activation/)
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## Tags

 * [add site](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/add-site/)
 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)

 * 6 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [jay_allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jay_allen/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-upon-adding-new-site/#post-3902544)
 * Status: not resolved