Title: Manually Activate Plugin
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Manually Activate Plugin

 *  Resolved [Warford Designs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/warford-designs/)
 * (@warford-designs)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-activate-plugin/)
 * Hi there I am working on a client site and they are not able to access the plugin
   directory in order to add and remove new plugins. I am wanting to use your plugin
   to remove a large volume of spam posts however need to know of a way to manually
   activate the plugin through the themes core files. Is this possible? any assistance
   would be gratefully appreciated as I have 600k posts to remove.
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 *  [Sudar Muthu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sudar/)
 * (@sudar)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-activate-plugin/#post-7527664)
 * You can manually download the plugin as a zip file and upload it and it should
   work.
 * Let me know if you are still facing any issues.
 *  Thread Starter [Warford Designs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/warford-designs/)
 * (@warford-designs)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-activate-plugin/#post-7527673)
 * the issue is I am not able to activate the plugin through the plugin admin page
   within the Dashboard. Is there another way possibly with a script added to wp-
   config, the theme functions file, or something along those lines? Currently at
   your mercy 🙂 Thanks for the prompt response 🙂
 *  [Sudar Muthu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sudar/)
 * (@sudar)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-activate-plugin/#post-7527682)
 * > the issue is I am not able to activate the plugin through the plugin admin 
   page within the Dashboard
 * Are you getting any error or is the mange plugins screen itself is disabled?
 * You can also put the plugin inside wp-content/mu-plugins/ folder which will auto-
   activate all plugins inside that directory.

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 * Last reply from: [Sudar Muthu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sudar/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-activate-plugin/#post-7527682)
 * Status: resolved