Title: Problem activating plugins after WP upgrade
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problem activating plugins after WP upgrade

 *  anonymized-3854925
 * (@anonymized-3854925)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-activating-plugins-after-wp-upgrade/)
 * I have just upgraded to WP 3.1.1 and now I cannot activate plugins properly.
 * When clicking the ‘Network Admin’ link I can see that I am able to add / remove/
   activate plugins.
 * I have ‘network activated’ 8 plugins, however when I go to the dashboard for 
   one of my websites I only have 2 available plugins. The rest aren’t even listed.
 * Has anyone else had this problem? Could there be something I have neglected to
   do?

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 *  [Tim Moore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tmoorewp/)
 * (@tmoorewp)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-activating-plugins-after-wp-upgrade/#post-2041669)
 * When you Network Activate a plugin, it removes that plugin from the per site 
   Plugins menu. It is intended behavior and not all plugins are designed to be 
   network activated.
 *  Thread Starter anonymized-3854925
 * (@anonymized-3854925)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-activating-plugins-after-wp-upgrade/#post-2041694)
 * Ohhh I see what you mean. All of the plugins’ functionalities seem to exist, 
   just they disappear from the Plugins menu.
 * Is this a new thing then? I’m sure this wasn’t the case before I upgraded.
 * What if I wanted to disable a plugin for a particular site? Is this possible?
 * Thanks.
 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-activating-plugins-after-wp-upgrade/#post-2041719)
 * If you network activate a plugin, then no – you cannot disable it on a single
   site. that part’s been in place since the “network active” was brought in.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-activating-plugins-after-wp-upgrade/#post-2041836)
 * > What if I wanted to disable a plugin for a particular site? Is this possible?
 * Only via plugins. Yeah. I know.
 * PLUGIN MANAGMENT
    * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-plugins/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-plugins/)*
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/restrict-multisite-plugins/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/restrict-multisite-plugins/)*
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/plugins-enabler/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/plugins-enabler/)

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## Tags

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

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 4 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-activating-plugins-after-wp-upgrade/#post-2041836)
 * Status: not resolved

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