Title: Plugin cant get reactivated
Last modified: October 22, 2023

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# Plugin cant get reactivated

 *  Resolved [sociobrightwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sociobrightwp/)
 * (@sociobrightwp)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-cant-get-reactivated/)
 * I have de-activated the plugin for some bug testing, and now that I try to activate
   it again nothing happens. I click activate but it doesn’t get activated.

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 *  Plugin Support [Dmytro – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudevsupport16/)
 * (@wpmudevsupport16)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-cant-get-reactivated/#post-17142169)
 * Hello [@sociobrightwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sociobrightwp/),
 * I hope you’re doing well today!
 * Although I could not re-produce the same behavior on a test site, this could 
   be sometimes happening due to the server-side caching, for example, the object
   cache like Memcached.
 * Could you please try flushing the object cache, if there’s an option in the hosting
   panel to do that. You can also try re-installing Defender, by deleting it, and
   installing again. This may sometimes help in case of the aggressive server caching,
   or in case of corrupt plugin files, etc.
 * Other possible reasons are PHP errors, and plugin/theme conflicts.
 * The conflict test means testing it after switching other plugins on/off, and 
   changing the theme as explained here:
    [https://wpmudev.com/docs/getting-started/getting-support/#conflict-test](https://wpmudev.com/docs/getting-started/getting-support/#conflict-test)
 * Finally, if that still doesn’t help, you can enable debugging, and check if there
   are any error messages in the debug log, they may help to find the root cause
   of the issue. Here’s how to enable debugging and debug log by editing wp-config.
   php file:
    [https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/debugging-in-wordpress/](https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/debugging-in-wordpress/)
 * Let us know if the above steps were helpful.
 * Best Regards,
    Dmytro
 *  [Kris – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudevsupport13/)
 * (@wpmudevsupport13)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-cant-get-reactivated/#post-17166079)
 * Hi [@sociobrightwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sociobrightwp/)
 * We haven’t heard from you in a while, I’ll go and mark this thread as resolved.
   If you have any additional questions or require further help, please let us know!
 * Kind Regards,
   Kris

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