How to allow clients to install plugins?

[alexlii1971]

Hello,

I'm new to this plugin and just completed a test—thanks for the support!

I understand that I can set permissions for clients or registered site owners to view the plugins. However, I have a couple of questions:

Is it possible to allow clients or site owners to install the plugins they want?
If yes, is there a way to isolate their sites from the main site for security reasons? For instance, they might install plugins that could potentially cause issues for the entire site.
If no, is there any way to integrate this service with VPS providers like DigitalOcean, Linode, Amazon, or Google Cloud?

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Thank you in advance!

[yward]

Hello,
Not the fork owner here but happy to answer your questions:

• No, you cannot allow individual site owners to upload plugins and install them (by default) as that poses a considerable security risk. There are ways to override this but I will highly discourage you from doing so due to the security implications. For such usage I'd recommend you go for a kind of model where the sites are in isolated environments, i.e. site cloning into separate single installations using WHMCS or similar.
• The approach I recommend while still using this plugin is to upload as many plugins as you need to based on the different plan you offer and keep them disabled by default, your site owners can then choose to enable the needed plugins only.

[marcusquinn]

I wouldn't expect what you are asking for from this plugin, it would cause unlimited problems and goes against the point of this to have a highly curated and managed WordPress as a Service.

If you want to offer plugin uploading to clients, that's just any standard WP hosting (eg: Hostinger / Closte) that you can resell and oversee with something like MainWP.

Suggest this issue as closed @superdav42 as already solved by design.

[superdav42]

Yes, allowing customers to upload plug-ins is something that this will never allow. By design plug-ins are limited to what is installed but there is functionally to limit plugins to certain plans and sites.

I'm gonna to leave this issue open for now because I want @alexlii1971 to try to subscribe to the newsletter again. https://wpmultisitewaas.org/newsletter/ it is working for me and should always have worked. Please try again.