WordPress Plugins are modules that extend the features and functions of the base WordPress blog engine. Some plugins add additional content management features, some add entirely new kinds of, and ways to add, content, and some add new user functions to your MSMOsites blog, website, or web store.
Those of you familiar with the standard WordPress Dashboard structure may notice the lack of the standard Plugins menu section usually found about half-way down the Dashboard’s left-column menu. On MSMOsites we have replaced this by an easier-to-use plugins managment feature that appears at the bottom of the Posts menu.
There are a couple of reasons for this:
a) first, the structure we are using to create MSMOsites blogs, websites, and web stores, puts the main control of all plugins under the MSMOsites main administrator.
b) for security and convenience reasons limited management of only selected pluggins is available to individual site administrators.
All individual plugin management is handled from the Manage plugins menu accessed through the Plugins link in the Pages sub-menu. This link opens the following plugin control panel:
In most cases the only control over plugins in this menu is the ability to activate/deactivate the plugins listed.
The process of adding new plugins, updating or deleting existing plugins, and configuring some default plugin options is handled by the MSMOsites administrator. Should there be a feature or plugin you are aware of, and would like for your site, please contact us and we will evaluate it for use here.
Some plugins are simply not stable and, although they seem to offer an interesting or desireable feature, they will cause more grief than joy. We try to be very careful about the plugins we choose and extremely thorough in our evaluation.
