Title: reinstall plugins link
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# reinstall plugins link

 *  [paulie22](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulie22/)
 * (@paulie22)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-plugins-link/)
 * I would like to the option to click one link and have all my plugins reinstalled,
   similar to the “reinstall wordpress link” in admin. Can you add that? My website
   got hacked and it going to be painful to find and reinstall the plugins.

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 *  [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
 * (@binarywc)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-plugins-link/#post-7648601)
 * This would be an excellent feature to have! However, it is not currently offered
   by default.
 *  [staartmees](https://wordpress.org/support/users/staartmees/)
 * (@staartmees)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-plugins-link/#post-7648615)
 * This excists as a plugin, [https://wordpress.org/plugins/multi-plugin-installer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/multi-plugin-installer)
 *  [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
 * (@binarywc)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-plugins-link/#post-7648637)
 * [@staartmees](https://wordpress.org/support/users/staartmees/) it does not appear
   to offer the Re-install feature that @paulle22 is referring to!
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-plugins-link/#post-7648754)
 * 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.
 *  [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
 * (@binarywc)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-plugins-link/#post-7648762)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-plugins-link/#post-7648768)
 * What about another example? Resolving a hacked installation is not a job for 
   a non-developer.
 *  [annora4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/annora4/)
 * (@annora4)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-plugins-link/#post-7648806)
 * 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!

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## Tags

 * [hacked website](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hacked-website/)

 * In: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/)
 * 7 replies
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 * Last reply from: [annora4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/annora4/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-plugins-link/#post-7648806)
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