Title: keep menu with disabled plugins
Last modified: July 26, 2021

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# keep menu with disabled plugins

 *  [Antonio Augusto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antonio24073/)
 * (@antonio24073)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keep-menu-with-disabled-plugins/)
 * Hi, I would like to keep the original menu with all plugins when I disable plugins
   in assets cleanup. Any suggestion?

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 *  Plugin Author [Janis Elsts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whiteshadow/)
 * (@whiteshadow)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keep-menu-with-disabled-plugins/#post-14705331)
 * I already responded to this via email, but I’ll post my response here as well
   in case another user has a similar question.
 * > What does “disable plugins in assets cleanup” mean in this context?
   > If you’re asking if there’s a way to leave a plugin menu visible while the 
   > corresponding plugin is disabled, I’m pretty sure that’s impossible. Maybe 
   > you could manually create a new menu item that links to the admin page of the
   > disabled plugin (as a custom URL). However, this might be time-consuming to
   > set up, and then you would have duplicate menu items while the plugin was enabled.
 *  Thread Starter [Antonio Augusto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antonio24073/)
 * (@antonio24073)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keep-menu-with-disabled-plugins/#post-14705691)
 * This is a new feature to you.
    If I copy the menus to a custom menu, it’s just
   disable the original menu to prevent duplicates. While it’s not implemented, 
   I would to know the easy way to do this exporting, modifing the file and importing
   again, to do this in mass.
 *  Plugin Author [Janis Elsts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whiteshadow/)
 * (@whiteshadow)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keep-menu-with-disabled-plugins/#post-14705886)
 * Ah, I see. Thank you for the suggestion! However, this seems like it would be
   a pretty niche feature, so it probably won’t be implemented in the near future.

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 * Last reply from: [Janis Elsts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whiteshadow/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keep-menu-with-disabled-plugins/#post-14705886)
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