Help needed with Multisite!

[applesapples]

I am trying to use the plugin with multisite, and I read in the forums that it does work. However, no data at all is added to the subsite database tables, and my developer tells me that the rules of WordPress, and the structure that should be followed in developing a plugin have been completely ignored by this one, and this is why it doesn’t work.

Please can I get some advice?

[amin007]

Does your developer have a website so I can checkout to see what work he has done so far and contact him?

This is how a multi-site install of a normal WordPress plugin work when used with Network activate. You do a “Network Activate” of the plugin and it will appear in the admin section of each of your network sites. You have one single copy of the plugin but each network site will have individual control of that plugin (as if it is installed on a separate site). This way the admins of the different network sites can administer the plugins individually (for example: add products of their own and configure how the checkout works etc).

There are only 2 different ways to activate a plugin on a multi-site install:

Activate: running ONLY on the site on which you activate it

Network Activated: running on all sites, but individual sites can chose to turn them off.

[13ham]

is there any way to push categories ( show_products_from_category(1) ) to all multisites through the template files (ie sidebar, footer, etc.) without having to install wp estore throughout the entire network (so only super admin has conrol over settings / site, etc.)?

it seems like i have half a solution by including

require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-content/plugins/wp-cart-for-digital-products/wp_eStore1.php’);

so the above show_products..() does not fail, but it also displays the ‘no products in this category’ error.

or am i just sol? thanks for any help or direction.

[amin007]

Thats not how normal plugins work in multi-site install. You install one plugin but each individual sub-site will have it’s own database and settings and admin area so the admin of the sub-site can configure it the way he wants for his sub-site.

[13ham]

understood, i was just wondering if there was a workaround solution that came to mind. if not, no worries.

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