Title: cannot deactivate plugin
Last modified: June 18, 2019

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# cannot deactivate plugin

 *  [hiphauler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hiphauler/)
 * (@hiphauler)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-deactivate-plugin-6/)
 * Attempted to deactivate the plugin from Installed Plugins menu and it just hangs.
   Have to go through the backend and forcibly rip it out.

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 *  Plugin Author [Weston Ruter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/westonruter/)
 * (@westonruter)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-deactivate-plugin-6/#post-11647256)
 * [@hiphauler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hiphauler/) You repeatedly tried
   to deactivate and it timed out each time? Do other plugins timeout when deactivating?
 *  [fox056](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fox056/)
 * (@fox056)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-deactivate-plugin-6/#post-11647586)
 * today there was the same problem as the previous assessment
 *  Plugin Author [Weston Ruter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/westonruter/)
 * (@westonruter)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-deactivate-plugin-6/#post-11647624)
 * [@fox056](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fox056/) Does it happen with only
   deactivating the AMP plugin or deactivating any plugin?
 * Note that the AMP plugin does do a loopback request to the frontend of the site
   after a plugin is _activated_ to check for incompatibilities: [https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/blob/d8b0cac757c2cfeae384e522aea00ece0dee5a25/includes/validation/class-amp-validation-manager.php#L175-L182](https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/blob/d8b0cac757c2cfeae384e522aea00ece0dee5a25/includes/validation/class-amp-validation-manager.php#L175-L182)
 * However, this should not happen at deactivation as seen in this code.
 *  Plugin Author [Weston Ruter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/westonruter/)
 * (@westonruter)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-deactivate-plugin-6/#post-11647626)
 * It would be ideal if you could open a support topic to help us find a solution
   to the problem.
 *  [Akki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luckyankit/)
 * (@luckyankit)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-deactivate-plugin-6/#post-11648086)
 * Happened with me too but for some other plugin. It’s not just this plugin but
   could be any plugin. Disable object caching before deactivating any plugin as
   you keep seeing the old page from cache. That should resolve this issue.

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