Title: Deactivating plugins
Last modified: March 23, 2019

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# Deactivating plugins

 *  [gajputns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gajputns/)
 * (@gajputns)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivating-plugins-3/)
 * Hello! I tried to download and test different wordpress search plugins, but now
   is impossible ti deactivate them. Deleting also is impossible. When I try this,
   all just stops and when I refresh the dashboard, nothing has changed. I already
   visited support forums of this plugins, but noone can give answer. Ex. see here-
   [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivating-plugin-5/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivating-plugin-5/)
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fdeactivating-plugins-3%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Naveen Kharwar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/naveenkharwar/)
 * (@naveenkharwar)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivating-plugins-3/#post-11347456)
 * Hey,
    As I saw [Search Storm](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-storm/) Plugin
   is not maintained from 3 major releases of WordPress and the last update was 
   3 years ago so probably the Plugin owner/author stop supporting and maintaining
   this project/Plugin. I recommend you do not use this plugin and search for the
   alternate of this plugin.
 * Try to delete the plugins from this method [https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-deactivate-all-plugins-when-not-able-to-access-wp-admin/](https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-deactivate-all-plugins-when-not-able-to-access-wp-admin/).
   
   Hope this will solve your problem.
 *  [JNashHawkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnashhawkins/)
 * (@jnashhawkins)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivating-plugins-3/#post-11348015)
 * If you can get into the ‘plugins directory’ via FTP or your hosting control panel’s
   file manager you should be able to just find that one plugin’s subdirectory and
   remove it… delete just that one plugin.
 * In the future you might add a file manager to your plugins lineup. I do that 
   on some sites when I’m working on weird things or experimenting. Using one of
   those from WordPress while in WordPress feels a little like building a ship in
   a bottle but they can be handy sometimes.
 * I usually kill those though once I turn over to a client. You probably don’t 
   want a client in there deleting and editing files where they might kill the whole
   beast… They’ll probably not tell you what they did either so you get stuck with
   a royal mess.

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

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 * Last reply from: [JNashHawkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnashhawkins/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivating-plugins-3/#post-11348015)
 * Status: not resolved

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