Title: Multisite, "activate_plugins" capability stops ordinary admins from using plugin
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Multisite, "activate_plugins" capability stops ordinary admins from using plugin

 *  [ade11](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ade11/)
 * (@ade11)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-activate_plugins-capability-stops-ordinary-admins-from-using-plugin/)
 * In main.php, line #125 or thereabouts, we note you draw the menu with ‘activate_plugins’
   capability required.
 * In WP Multisite, this is often turned off for site admins, only super-admin has
   that capability.
 * This means that on our multisite setup, our editors and admins cannot use your
   plugin.
 * Please can you fix this as soon as possible?
 * Many thanks!!
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/magic-fields-2/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/magic-fields-2/)

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 *  Thread Starter [ade11](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ade11/)
 * (@ade11)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-activate_plugins-capability-stops-ordinary-admins-from-using-plugin/#post-4006396)
 * To add to this, basically all the menu options (except the “import”, for some
   reason) are being drawn with the wrong capabilities for multisite use.
 * Administrators and Editors need to be able to change the plugin’s options, “manage_options”
   and “activate_plugins” are the ones used currently, on multisite that means only
   super-admins have access.
 * In our case (and probably most others) super admins manage the network, not individual
   sites, individual sites have ordinary administrators or editors.
 * This is an extremely simple fix, please can you incorporate it into the next 
   update?

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