This would be an excellent feature to have! However, it is not currently offered by default.
@staartmees it does not appear to offer the Re-install feature that @paulle22 is referring to!
Why? What purpose does “reinstalling” a plugin serve?
This isn’t like your personal computer. Installing a plugin just means downloading the files and putting them in the right directories on the website. It’s not doing anything complicated here, and “re-installing” is never really necessary for a plugin, nor will it fix anything.
As one example, a website gets hacked and you think you have cleaned everything up but in fact some code was injected into a plugins code and you someone who is not a programmer would not know, for that matter even a programmer like myself can sometimes miss code that does not belong in a plugin that I did not write. Re-installing the original plugin code in this case would rule out malicious code in a plugin.
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
What about another example? Resolving a hacked installation is not a job for a non-developer.
Nice Question.
There are some steps which are mentioned on [Link redacted] and you can follow that.
*Click the Edit link under the target plugin name.
*Locate the line declaring version “Version: ****” and make the number smaller. Then click Update button.
*Go to Update Center, you can see plugin update notice, update it ! That’s it!
