Title: Why Network?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Why Network?

 *  [Strueblood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/strueblood/)
 * (@strueblood)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-network/)
 * When I started a new site recently, it somehow became a network site, which is
   cumbersome because I have to navigate to my plugins through the Network Admin
   dashboard. None of my installed plugins show up in the site dashboard.
 * Is there some reason why this is superior? How can I change it back to a non-
   network configuration, or conversely, how can I move another site into this network?

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 *  [Jon Dingman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdingman/)
 * (@jdingman)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-network/#post-4173863)
 * I would read through both of these pages
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network](http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network)
   
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Network_Admin](http://codex.wordpress.org/Network_Admin)
 * As far as I know, once you enable Network, you can’t revert without having to
   reinstall WordPress.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-network/#post-4173880)
 * You can totally do it!
 * [http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/how-to-disable-multisite/](http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/how-to-disable-multisite/)

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## Tags

 * [dashboard](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/dashboard/)
 * [multi-site](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multi-site/)
 * [network](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/network/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-network/#post-4173880)
 * Status: not resolved

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