Title: Automatically deactivate plugin
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Automatically deactivate plugin

 *  Resolved [Yogesh Dalavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yogeshdalavi/)
 * (@yogeshdalavi)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-deactivate-plugin/)
 * Hi,
 * I am using this plugin since last seven months. And now this plugin it automatically
   deactivated all the time.
 * It’s given error
 * “The plugin wordpress-popular-posts/wordpress-popular-posts.php has been deactivated
   due to an error: Plugin file does not exist.”
 * So i have tried to re-install plugin but nothing happen.
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-popular-posts](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-popular-posts)
 * Please Advice
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * (@hcabrera)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-deactivate-plugin/#post-7251788)
 * Hi there!
 * WordPress is telling you that it cannot activate WPP because there’s a file that’s
   missing (wordpress-popular-posts.php).
 * [Download WPP](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-popular-posts.3.3.3.zip)
   manually, extract the _wordpress-popular-posts_ folder from the zip file and 
   upload it to your _wp-content/plugins_ directory. After that you should be able
   to reactivate the plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [Yogesh Dalavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yogeshdalavi/)
 * (@yogeshdalavi)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-deactivate-plugin/#post-7251795)
 * Hi Hector,
 * I got your point. I know that because of missing of “wordpress-popular-posts.
   php” this wordpress showing error.
 * But how many times i need to do this process manually? When i activated this 
   plugin the after few minutes i see the error in the dashboard.
 * Please advice
 *  Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * (@hcabrera)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-deactivate-plugin/#post-7251802)
 * Just once. If it happens again, then we can assume something’s wrong with your
   WordPress setup. The fact that WPP’s core file got deleted somehow actually tells
   you that something bad happened on your site.

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 * ![](https://ps.w.org/wordpress-popular-posts/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1232659)
 * [WP Popular Posts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/)
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 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-deactivate-plugin/#post-7251802)
 * Status: resolved