Title: error message when deactivating …
Last modified: October 29, 2016

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# error message when deactivating …

 *  [fneumeier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fneumeier/)
 * (@fneumeier)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-when-deactivating/)
 * I’m getting the following error message when deactivating the plugin:
 * “Shortcode UI plugin must be active for Shortcode UI Example plugin to function.”
 * Shortcode UI Example is not installed, so I’m wondering where this error message
   is coming from and how to avoid it (without activating the plugin just to get
   rid of the error message, of course 😉
 * Any ideas how to solve this?
 * Thanks and kind regards
    Franz

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 *  Plugin Author [goldenapples](https://wordpress.org/support/users/goldenapples/)
 * (@goldenapples)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-when-deactivating/#post-8455159)
 * How did you install the plugin? The version on Github (but not the version in
   the plugin directory) includes an example plugin (it will show up in the shortcode-
   ui folder as dev.php).
 * You can safely delete that file, as it’s only intended to be used as an example
   for developers to build shortcodes with.
 *  Thread Starter [fneumeier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fneumeier/)
 * (@fneumeier)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-when-deactivating/#post-8456770)
 * Thanks for the hint – I found the issue and it’s simply “stupid me” … I’ve used
   Shortcake in my functions.php and just used the code from dev.php as a starting
   point. Hence, I also copied this error message for the case that the plugin is
   being deactivated. Issue solved by reactivating the plugin as I definitely need
   it anyway 😉

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 * Last reply from: [fneumeier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fneumeier/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-when-deactivating/#post-8456770)
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