{"id":3923,"date":"2026-04-28T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/activating-and-deactivating-plugins-in-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:00:35","slug":"activating-and-deactivating-plugins-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/activating-and-deactivating-plugins-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Activating and Deactivating Plugins in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress plugins add extra features to your site. You can activate, deactivate and manage them from the WordPress dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>To install and activate a plugin:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to your WordPress admin area.<\/li>\n<li>Go to <strong>Plugins<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Add New<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Search for the plugin you want to use.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Install Now<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Activate<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>To deactivate a plugin:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to your WordPress admin area.<\/li>\n<li>Go to <strong>Plugins<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Find the plugin you want to disable.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Deactivate<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You can also deactivate several plugins at once by ticking the boxes beside them, choosing <strong>Deactivate<\/strong> from the bulk actions menu and selecting <strong>Apply<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If your WordPress site is slow or showing errors, temporarily deactivating plugins can help you identify whether one of them is causing the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress plugins add extra features to your site. You can activate, deactivate and manage them from the WordPress dashboard. To install and activate a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","kb_category":[37],"class_list":["post-3923","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","kb_category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3923\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_category?post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}