Only allow plugin to be activated on root site of multisite

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I’m developing the wordpress file monitor plus plugin.

Its purpose is to scan for altered files and it works fine for a single installation of WP. But when you look at multi-site it’s not something that wants to be enabled on all sub sites, as they all share the same files and (to be honest) only a network admin should be the one that wants to be notified against file changes.

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So my question is this:

How would I program it, to only be allowed to be installed/run from the root site of a multi-site installation? So: that means not allowing it to be network installed and only activated from the root blog.

Anyone know of any ways on how I could achieve this?

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  1. You could check if the constant SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE matches get_current_site()->id. The following does this for the activation. During runtime you have to check it again.

    register_activation_hook( __FILE__, 'force_main_site_installation' );

function force_main_site_installation()
{
    if ( defined( 'SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE' )
        and SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE !== get_current_site()->id 
    )
    {
        if ( function_exists('deactivate_plugins') )
        {
            deactivate_plugins( __FILE__ );
        }
        die( 'Install this plugin on the main site only.' );
    }
}

  2. First the explanation for the uninstall/activation/deactivation hooks.

    Second: check for is_blog_installed( $blog_ID ); and then look into all the get_blog_whatever(); and get_blogaddress_whatever();` functions (I guess you use phpstorm as IDE, so autocomplete for functions should be available to you).

    Edit: You could also try to restrict the available menu with registering the admin pages with network_admin_menu() (triggers only if is_network_admin()), user_admin_menu(); (triggers only if is_user_admin()) instead of admin_menu();.

  3. Only this solution worked for me :

    register_activation_hook( __FILE__,  function () {
    if ( is_multisite() && ! strpos( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'wp-admin/network/plugins.php' ) ) {
        die ( __( '<script>alert("Activate this plugin only from the NETWORK DASHBOARD.");</script>') );
    }
    // ...............
});