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WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, 5th Edition
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WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, 5th Edition

by Lisa Sabin-Wilson
February 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
608 pages
14h 45m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 5

Using Network Plugins and Themes

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Understanding theme management

Bullet Gathering and displaying content from sites across your network

Bullet Understanding network-wide plugins

Bullet Finding multisite plugins

When you add new plugins and themes to your Multisite WordPress installation, you add new functionality and aesthetics. But you don’t just multiply your choices; the possibilities become endless. You can gather and display information from across the network, for example, or make the same features available to all users. You can choose to have the same theme on all sites or different themes. You can not only manage plugins and themes on a global level, but also have site-specific control.

In this chapter, I show you how certain functionality appears across the network and how certain plugins look by default on all sites for all users. I also cover controlling access to different themes for different sites.

One of the interesting features of a network is the extensive use of the mu-plugins folder. In this chapter, I describe exactly how this folder processes plugin code. ...

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