Title: Problems activating and deactivating plugins
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Problems activating and deactivating plugins

 *  [wenchkin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wenchkin/)
 * (@wenchkin)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-activating-and-deactivating-plugins/)
 * I just upgraded to 2.2 and got my existing plugins re-activated successfully.
   However if I try to de-activate, for example the google search widget, I get 
   a confirmation message of-
    “Are you sure you want to deactivate this plugin:“
   widgets/gsearch.php”?” I click on yes and get another screen with- “Are you sure
   you want to deactivate this plugin: “”?” It doesn’t matter how many times I click
   yes, I just get those 2 screens. I tried to install the 5 star rating plugin 
   and I get those screens when I try to activate it.
 * Would appreciate any ideas on how to solve this problem.
 * Wenchy

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 *  [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/)
 * (@doodlebee)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-activating-and-deactivating-plugins/#post-565519)
 * in the short-term, you can just delete the widget from your server. That’ll “
   deactivate” it for you.
 * As for the long-term – I don’t know. But at least I can tell you how to deactivate
   it for now 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [wenchkin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wenchkin/)
 * (@wenchkin)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-activating-and-deactivating-plugins/#post-565557)
 * Aha, yeah I wasn’t sure if I’d **really** break a plugin by deleting it heh. 
   You’re right though, that got rid of the unwanted one!
 * I’ll keep trying with the others 🙂
 * Couple of things I’ve just noticed, the plugin that won’t activate highlights
   white instead of yellow and I get the same confirmation message problem if I 
   try to deactivate all plugins too.
 * Wenchy
 *  [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/)
 * (@doodlebee)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-activating-and-deactivating-plugins/#post-565602)
 * Have you tried changing out your theme? Maybe there’s something in your functions
   file that’s messing with it. You might try deleting *all* of your plugins and
   reactiviating them one at a time to see if that helps track down the “bad” one.
 * That’s really all I can think of to do!

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## Tags

 * [activate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/activate/)
 * [confirmation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/confirmation/)
 * [deactivate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/deactivate/)

 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/)
 * Last activity: [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-activating-and-deactivating-plugins/#post-565602)
 * Status: not resolved

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