Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Multisite Sub-Site Setup
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Multisite Sub-Site Setup

 *  [markb1439](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markb1439/)
 * (@markb1439)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-multisite-sub-site-setup/)
 * Hi,
 * I want to make this plugin available to users on a multisite network. I understand
   that W3 Total Cache can’t be activated sitewide. So, I would at least like to
   preconfigure settings, so that each site owner will activate the plugin…and our
   preconfigured settings will already be active.
 * However, I can’t figure out how to do this. I saw a post somewhere saying that
   sub-sites can inherit the main site’s settings. However, this isn’t happening
   for me. I also read that defaults can be hard-coded.
 * Please let me know the easiest way to preconfigure the plugin so that sub-site
   users just have to turn it on to use our preconfigured settings.
 * Thanks!
 * Mark

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 *  Thread Starter [markb1439](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markb1439/)
 * (@markb1439)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-multisite-sub-site-setup/#post-1954062)
 * Also, specifically, is there a way to disable preview mode in sub-sites and just
   have the plugin always work with preview off? We have reasons that we need to
   do it this way.
 * Thanks!
 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-multisite-sub-site-setup/#post-1954303)
 * That feature was broken along the way. For now the “easiest” way is to export
   and import settings into each site. A centralized management console for specific
   users will be available for in a future release for multi-site.

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 * Last reply from: [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-multisite-sub-site-setup/#post-1954303)
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