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All Hive sites include common plugin Admin? How to separate?

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  • Started 7 months ago by pfraterdeus
  • Latest reply from cpedraza
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  1. pfraterdeus
    Member

    Maybe (likely) I'm missing something important or obvious here, but I've just installed a new WP site with WPHive, went through the install just like it was a generic WP site, and have ended up with a site which, in the admin pages, includes the same plugins as my 'original' site (which should exist as a completely separate site!).

    This seems very peculiar to me, since I intended to have each of these new Hive sites be admin'ed/themed by a different person (students in a design class), but it appears that when they launch their own site, they'll be able to change the settings for Hive globally, adding, or even removing other Hive sites.

    This doesn't make any sense at all.
    Are plug-in settings shared among all the sites created?? The settings for the plugins all seem to be mirroring (or actually ARE) the settings for my 'original' install.

    SO, if this is as wrong as it seems to me, what have I done wrong to get to this point??

    OR, have I completely missed the point of this, and in fact, all the blogs created by Hive are intended to be admin'ed by the same person???

    Thanks very much!

    Peter
    semiotx.com
    eiotx.com/wp/

    Posted 7 months ago #

  2. cpedraza
    Member

    All sites in a hive share the same pool of plugins. However, they do NOT share the same settings, including activation.

    I run 4 sites in my hive. All the same plugins appear in the plugin panel on the Dashboard for all 4 sites. However, the different sites have different plugins activated, and settings are individually set on each site by each site's admin.

    If you want to activate/deactivate a plugin or change its settings on one Hive site, go ahead. You'll see it doesn't change the settings on the other sites.

    Also, a person granted admin privileges on one Hive site doesn't get admin privileges on any other Hive site unless you create a separate admin-level account on the other Hive site(s).

    The _only_ plugin that doesn't seem to apply to is WP Hive itself. It has its own panel on the lefthand side of the Dashboard, and an admin-level person appears to have access to create a new site in the Hive or edit some limited but important settings in the database.

    If you want multiple sites from one WP installation with true walls between sites, then WordpressMU is probably what you're looking for.

    /carlos

    Posted 7 months ago #

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