Title: Plugin reactivation after update
Last modified: September 11, 2020

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# Plugin reactivation after update

 *  Resolved [antokru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antokru/)
 * (@antokru)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reactivation-after-update/)
 * Hello,
 * I was wondering why the plugin is not reactivated automatically after installing
   an update? Is that on purpose?

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Tracy Levesque](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liljimmi/)
 * (@liljimmi)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 YIKES, Inc. Co-Owner
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reactivation-after-update/#post-13392788)
 * Hi [@antokru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antokru/)
 * After you update the plugin, are you saying it deactivates itself?
 * We have nothing in the code to make that happen intentionally and I have not 
   experienced that when updating the plugin on several sites, so there must be 
   something else going on on the site.
 * -Tracy
 *  Thread Starter [antokru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antokru/)
 * (@antokru)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reactivation-after-update/#post-13392815)
 * Yes after every update the plugin is deactivated and I have to activate it manually(
   if I don’t forget). This doesn’t happen with any other plugin on our website.
 *  [Freddie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fmixell/)
 * (@fmixell)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reactivation-after-update/#post-13414140)
 * Hey [@antokru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antokru/),
 * The only reason I can think that would happen is if you’re manually editing the
   plugin and then WordPress thinks its a brand new plugin being installed. Have
   you modified the code in any way before?
 * Cheers,
    Freddie
 *  Thread Starter [antokru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antokru/)
 * (@antokru)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reactivation-after-update/#post-13418093)
 * Hello Freddie,
 * no I didn’t modify the code of the plugin. I was thinking to delete the plugin
   an install it again. Maybe that will solve it…
 *  Plugin Contributor [Tracy Levesque](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liljimmi/)
 * (@liljimmi)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 YIKES, Inc. Co-Owner
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reactivation-after-update/#post-13419099)
 * Hi [@antokru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antokru/)
 * If you do that you will lose all of your custom tab data. If that’s not a problem(
   like you only have a few tabs and you don’t mind re-creating them) you can try
   uninstalling/reinstalling.
 * -Tracy

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## Tags

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

 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Tracy Levesque](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liljimmi/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reactivation-after-update/#post-13419099)
 * Status: resolved