Active plugins as of 8/13/2014

Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your site from comment and trackback spam. It keeps your site protected from spam even while you sleep. To get started: 1) Click the “Activate” link to the left of this description, 2) Sign up for an Akismet API key, and 3) Go to your Akismet configuration page, and save your API key.

Convert existing categories to tags or tags to categories, selectively.

Clone sites in a network installation

Create internal communities with their own discussion boards, wikis, news dashboards, user lists and messaging facilities

Lets you add custom css to your web site

A domain mapping plugin that can handle sub-directory installs and global logins

Adds two dashboard widgets about the user account and additional information about the current blog.

Quickly and easily create drag-and-drop forms

Adds buttons to your visual editor to make it easy to create tables in your posts and pages.

An internal email / messaging / inbox solution

Take control of the theme admin page for your multisite network. Categorize your themes into groups, modify the name, description, and screenshot used for themes.

Allows the site admin to create new sites based on templates, to speed up the site creation process

Give your plugin page the look of an app store, with featured images, categories, and amazing search.

Plugin that makes inserting embed code quick and simple.

Enabled reader that lets users browse posts inside network

This plugin upgrades default RSS widget so it is updated every 15min by JS without increasing server load

Easily externalize user authentication to a Shibboleth Service Provider

Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess

This plugin adds notification when the user is invited to a blog, just in case e-mails are lost

Extends the allowed filetyps list.

Display a message in admin dashboard

Provide your users with helpful random tips (or promotions/news) in their admin panels.

Silently upgrade blog if DB needs to be upgraded

Create hundred or thousands of sites and users automatically by simply uploading a csv text file – subdomain and user creation automation has never been so easy.

Import posts, comments, tags, and attachments from a Blogger blog.

The blog and user creator plugin is an amazing powerful feature that allows you, and your users, to batch create gazillions of blogs and/or users while setting passwords, urls, titles and more!

Removes some of the features from New Blog Templates

Let’s you insert BubbleShare galleries into your posts. Usage in post:

Sets up defaults for Campus

Add user account details to new user and blog notifications

Clean left over autoload options. e.g. theme_mods

Allows you to monitor your entire site for set words that you define (and get an email whenever they are used) – perfect for educational or high profile sites.

Manage and add dashboard widgets for Campus Network

A plugin to allow the default blogroll to be modified by site admins.

Defaults the link for uploaded media to file

Allows you to easily select a new default theme for new blogs

Automatically enable authentication plugins

Disables old browser nag screen on WordPress dashboards.

Disable all WP Feature Pointers

Disable WPMU DEV Dashboard Notice

List of banned words. Used by Spam Filters and the likes

Extends My Sites page with bulk actions and additional useful data

Lets MP6 fix the icons!

Enable Link Manager on WordPress 3.5

Fixes the admin capabilities after 3.2 upgrade

Fix invalid UTF-8 char in RSS feed.

Fixes super admin status for user id 1 after username change

Allows each site to have their very own forums – embedded in any page or post.

This powerful plugin allows you to simply display a global category cloud for your entire WordPress Multisite network. How cool is that!

A magnificent plugin that allows global search across all blogs on your WordPress Multisite / BuddyPress install with ease!

This powerful plugin allows you to simply display a global tag cloud for your entire WordPress Multisite network. How cool is that!

This powerful plugin allows you to simply display a global tag cloud for your entire WordPress Multisite network. How cool is that!

Enables Google Analytics for your site with statistics inside WordPress admin panel. Single and multi site compatible!

Very lean and mean CAPTCHA to stop the spammers and bots

Import posts and comments from LiveJournal.

Makes that admin bar always visible even for logged out users

Adds Super Admins to a list automatically

Import posts and comments from a Movable Type or TypePad blog.

The essential plugin for every multisite install! Manage plugin access permissions across your entire multisite network.

Adds more levels of privacy and allows you to control them across all sites – or allow users to override them.

Add a Network Admin / Site Admin button to your WordPress Multisite Dashboard

Notifies administrator of posts pending for review

Import links in OPML format.

Redirect to primary blog

Removes the Akismet submenu

If you are running WordPress MU on a local installation, without an internet connection, then it can be slowed down by repeated calls to external sites. This plugin removes all those calls.

Displays post and comment activity per blog and per user

Restrict Changing Password from user-edit.php

Allows you to insert RockYou Slideshows into your postsusing the following code: , e.g.,

Import posts from an RSS feed.

Allows new users to select the language they use at signup

Display a message about server move during the weekend

Offers options for turning the Admin Bar off for Campus blogs.

This plugin places a Terms of Service box on the WP Multisite or BuddyPress signup form forcing the user to tick the associated checkbox in order to continue

On-demand sitemaps for WPMU.

Eliminates spam trackbacks by (1) checking if the IP address of the trackback sender is equal to the IP address of the webserver the trackback URL is referring to and (2) by retrieving the web page located at the URL used in the trackback and checking if the page contains a link to your blog.

Provides an interface to make the server unavailable to everyone, except admin. Inspired by Angsuman Chakraborty’s WP shutdown plugin.

A filter for WordPress that displays slideshare.net presentations. Original author Koen Verhaeghe. Modified for WordPress MU by Elad Salomons.

For no-latency application metric tracking and code profiling via Etsy’s StatsD + Graphite. Tracks logins, password resets, users, registrations, posting, commenting, attachments, XML-RPC, multiiste blog actions, load time, query count, http requests, and more! Requires StatsD on the local or private network server. See API usage instructions: https://github.com/domnikl/statsd-php/blob/develop/README.md

Rejoice!

This plugin allows you and your users to offer subscriptions to email notification of new posts

A plugin that does a simple sanity check to stop really obvious comment spam before it is processed.

A complete white-label and branding solution for multisite. Login images, favicons, remove WordPress links and branding, and much more.

Adds the unfiltered_html capablitiy to Administrators and Editors so that content posted by users with those roles is not filtered by KSES; Embeds, Iframe, etc. are preserved. Note: If for any reason the unfiltered_html capability is ever lost, simply deactivate, and then reactivate this plugin.

Makes available a selection of different widgets for use in your sidebars. Once activated just drag and edit the new widgets in Appearance -> Widgets.

Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, tags and more from a WordPress export file.

Converts inline latex code into PNG images that are displayed in your blog posts and comments. Use either or syntax.

Notifies the Admin or Super Admin of available updates for WPMU DEV plugins and themes, new releases, and special member only offers. Allows auto-upgrades of supported themes/plugins. Required to be installed to use WPMU DEV products.

Advanced caching plugin.

Custom site suspended message.

The ultimate plugin to stop and kill splogs in WPMU

External object cache.

Memcached backend for the WP Object Cache.

Executed before Multisite is loaded.