Title: posts being ‘lost’ when deactivating plugin
Last modified: June 20, 2018

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# posts being ‘lost’ when deactivating plugin

 *  [danttony](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danttony/)
 * (@danttony)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-being-lost-when-deactivating-plugin/)
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-hidden-after-deactivation/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-hidden-after-deactivation/)
 * This thread was closed so opening a new one.
 * Hope you have had chance to think about the issue where archived posts are basically‘
   lost’ when the plugin in deactivated or removed —
 * I tried it today and was a little shocked to see my content disappear 🙂
 * I realised quicky that there is no ‘archive’ status in wordpress so hence the
   content would be in the DB but not displayed with the plugin deactivated —
 * I would agree with the other person in the previous post – it would be great 
   to have the content moved to draft status – or returned to its previous status—
 * Anyhow thank you for your plugin – it was a life saver for my site — But hopefully,
   you can fix this.
 * Thanks
    -  This topic was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by [danttony](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danttony/).

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 * Last reply from: [danttony](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danttony/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-being-lost-when-deactivating-plugin/)
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