Title: Network-only custom plugins?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Network-only custom plugins?

 *  [davehprohoods](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davehprohoods/)
 * (@davehprohoods)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-only-custom-plugins/)
 * I am trying to get a custom plugin I wrote (that I won’t be uploading to the 
   WordPress plugin store) to be installed/activated only on the Network admin, 
   not on the sub-sites.
 * For instance, I want to set database connection options in the Network admin 
   through this plugin, but not let any sub-site admins be able to install, activate,
   or use that plugin on their sites.

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 *  [sontru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sontru/)
 * (@sontru)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-only-custom-plugins/#post-3666054)
 * Use a network plugin manager plugin such as [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multisite-plugin-manager/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multisite-plugin-manager/)
   to manage and restrict plugins being available to subsites.
 *  [Curtiss Grymala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cgrymala/)
 * (@cgrymala)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-only-custom-plugins/#post-3666141)
 * In [the plugin header](http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin#File_Headers),
   you should be able to include `Network: true` which stops the plugin from being
   able to be activated on a site-by-site basis, requiring it to be network-activated/
   deactivated only.

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Curtiss Grymala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cgrymala/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-only-custom-plugins/#post-3666141)
 * Status: not resolved

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