Title: Cannot Activate or Deactivate Plugins
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Cannot Activate or Deactivate Plugins

 *  Resolved [scootabug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scootabug/)
 * (@scootabug)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-or-deactivate-plugins/)
 * Hey Guys,
 * I was playing with some plugins yesterday…everything was going fine. I had a 
   couple of new ones and was able to activate and deactivate as often as I wished.
 * For some reason now it’s not activating or de-activating. The response says “
   Plugin deactivated”, but in the list it’s still activated and is actually still
   activated. So that’s weird.
 * Using WP 2.0, Firefox (clean cache and history) and I’ll give IE 6 a go now just
   for old-times sake!
 * Any thoughts would be appreciated.
 * Cheers,
    Scott.

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 *  [tnakka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tnakka/)
 * (@tnakka)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-or-deactivate-plugins/#post-310243)
 * Same problem here:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/54551](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/54551)
 *  [tnakka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tnakka/)
 * (@tnakka)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-or-deactivate-plugins/#post-310402)
 * The fix suggested in the above article fixed my problem. Report if it fixed yours!
 *  Thread Starter [scootabug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scootabug/)
 * (@scootabug)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-or-deactivate-plugins/#post-310613)
 * Thank you so much tnakka. That worked for me too.

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## Tags

 * [activate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/activate/)
 * [deactivate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/deactivate/)

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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [scootabug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scootabug/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-or-deactivate-plugins/#post-310613)
 * Status: resolved

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