Title: Multisite – plugin buttons for non-network-active plugins
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Multisite – plugin buttons for non-network-active plugins

 *  [Simon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svenlohuis/)
 * (@svenlohuis)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-plugin-buttons-for-non-network-active-plugins/)
 * Hi,
 * When using a multi-site environment there are plug-ins active on some sites and
   some not.
 * When editing the menu I can only edit the one of the active plug-ins. When saving
   the updated menu, the menu settings of a menu item that is not there, the settings
   of the not active plug-in menu items are lost. This is quit frustrating for a
   multi-site environment that has not all plug-ins by default active.
 * Is it possible to keep menu items (previously saved) editable in de editor even
   when the plug-in is not active on that specific site?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-menu-editor/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-menu-editor/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Janis Elsts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whiteshadow/)
 * (@whiteshadow)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-plugin-buttons-for-non-network-active-plugins/#post-5464213)
 * > Is it possible to keep menu items (previously saved) editable in de editor 
   > even when the plug-in is not active on that specific site?
 * Sorry, that is not currently possible.
 * Perhaps you could use per-site menu settings instead of one global admin menu?
   You can do that by clicking the “Settings” button on the menu editor page and
   changing “Multisite settings” to “Per-site”. That way editing the menu on a site
   that doesn’t have the plugin you mentioned wouldn’t affect sites that do have
   it.
 * Another option would be to create a “scratch” site that has _all_ plugins active
   and then edit the admin menu on that site only.
 *  Thread Starter [Simon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svenlohuis/)
 * (@svenlohuis)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-plugin-buttons-for-non-network-active-plugins/#post-5464214)
 * That last one is a good one. Will doe that!
 * Perhaps a idea to add this feature in the future? You could fetch the data of
   not active menu items from the saved menu settings.
 *  Plugin Author [Janis Elsts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whiteshadow/)
 * (@whiteshadow)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-plugin-buttons-for-non-network-active-plugins/#post-5464239)
 * > Perhaps a idea to add this feature in the future? You could fetch the data 
   > of not active menu items from the saved menu settings.
 * The problem with that approach is that it would force the user to manually clean
   up the admin menu every time they deactivate or uninstall a plugin or theme.
 * And in case you’re wondering: it is not possible to reliably determine which 
   menu item was created by which plugin, so AME can’t selectively remove only those
   items that belonged to uninstalled plugins.

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 * Last reply from: [Janis Elsts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whiteshadow/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-plugin-buttons-for-non-network-active-plugins/#post-5464239)
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