Beardo Multisite Activation Console

Activate, deactivate, and manage plugins across every site in your network from one screen. Managing plugins on a multisite network is messy. Deactivating a plugin at the network level can leave it quietly running on individual sites — but how would you know? Finding out means clicking through site after site, and fixing it means holding your breath while a bulk action either works or takes the network down. Beardo Multisite Activation Console was built for one purpose: to save you that time. Every plugin, every site, one grid — with every change made carefully, recorded, and impossible to lock yourself out with. Activation Grid See the whole network at a glance: which plugins are network-active, which are switched on for individual sites, and which are off everywhere. Sort, search, and filter the way you already do in the WordPress admin — no spreadsheets, no site-hopping. Quick Change Change the status of any plugin on any site right from the grid. The console never fires off a giant batch and hopes for the best: each change runs on its own, with a health check first. If a plugin would break one subsite, that site is flagged and the rest of your network carries on untouched. Clear Stale Networks that have been around a while collect clutter — plugins marked active on a site and network-active at the same time. The console spots the redundant entries and clears them without deactivating anything that's genuinely in use. Dead References Deleted a plugin from the server but WordPress still thinks it's active somewhere? Those leftover entries hang around in your database for years. The console finds them and removes them. Logs Every change is written to a network-wide audit log: who did it, on which site, what they changed, and whether it worked. Filter by person, site, or plugin. When a client asks "who turned that off?", you'll have the answer in seconds. Need the log outside WordPress? Export it as a CSV or Excel (.xlsx) file straight from the Audit tab — either the filtered view you're looking at or the whole log — ready for a client report, a compliance review, or a spreadsheet. Guardrails A built-in protected list means the console will never deactivate itself, a drop-in, or anything else that would lock a super admin out mid-change. Developers can extend that list with a single filter. Feels like part of WordPress Built on the same DataViews interface WordPress itself uses, so there's nothing new to learn. It follows your admin color scheme, works in right-to-left languages, and looks like it belongs. Free, and nothing leaves your server No paid tier, no external services, no tracking, no phoning home. The plugin reads and writes only your own network's plugin state and its own audit log. Who it's for

• Agencies and hosts managing client sites on one network
• Universities, franchises, and publishers with dozens or hundreds of subsites
• Anyone who has ever bulk-activated a plugin and immediately regretted it

Requires a multisite network. Only super admins can use the console, and every request is protected by WordPress nonces and capability checks. Support & Documentation

• Learn more: beardo.tools/multisite-activation-console
• Get help: help.beardo.tools

1. Upload the plugin folder to /wp-content/plugins/
2. Network Activate it from Network Admin → Plugins
3. Open Network Admin → Plugins → Activation Console

This plugin requires a WordPress multisite installation. It has no effect on single-site installs.

1.1.1

• Security hardening: stale-entry cleanup is refused unless the plugin is still network active, so it can never switch a plugin off on a site without running its deactivation hook.
• Security hardening: per-site activation is refused for network-only plugins, matching WordPress core.
• Security hardening: stricter validation of console REST requests.

1.1.0

• New: Export the audit log as CSV or Excel (.xlsx) from the Audit tab. Choose between the currently filtered entries and the full log. Exports include every matching entry, not just the rows on screen (up to 10,000 rows per file).
• CSV exports are protected against spreadsheet formula injection.
• Excel export requires PHP's zip extension; a clear message is shown if it is missing.
• Tested up to WordPress 7.1.

1.0.0

• Initial public release.
• Activation matrix — every plugin's state (network active, per-site active, or off) across all subsites in a single DataViews grid
• Safe transitions — one state change per request, so a fatal error on one subsite never takes down the whole batch
• Dry-run validation — backend health checks run before any change is executed
• Stale dual-state cleanup — detects and strips redundant per-site entries for network-active plugins without deactivating anything
• Dead-reference cleanup — removes activation entries for plugins no longer present on disk
• Audit log — every state transition recorded network-wide with acting user, target site, action, and result, filterable by user, site, and plugin
• Guardrails — a filterable protected list (beardo_mac_protected_plugins) prevents the console from deactivating itself or locking out a super admin
• Admin theme compatibility — console colors flow through a plugin-scoped CSS token layer, and the focus ring follows the user's admin color scheme
• Full RTL support This release follows an internal beta series; 1.0.0 is the first version published to WordPress.org.