{"id":1011,"date":"2018-01-07T15:18:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demon.comz\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2018-01-07T15:18:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:18:50","slug":"how-to-deactivate-and-delete-a-plugin-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/how-to-deactivate-and-delete-a-plugin-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Deactivate and Delete a Plugin in WordPress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If your plugin is not in use or you wish to deactivate it, you can do this from the WordPress admin dashboard. You can also delete deactivated plugins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Login to your WordPress admin dashboard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. <\/strong>Under the dashboard menu, hover your mouse over <strong>Plugins<\/strong> and then click on <strong>Installed Plugins<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-plugin-installed-plugin-menu.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> If you want to deactivate the <strong>Hello Dolly<\/strong> plugin, click on <strong>Deactivate<\/strong>, which appears at the bottom of the Hello Dolly text.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-plugin-deactivate-hellodolly.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Delete a Plugin in WordPress?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Once a plugin is deactivated, the delete option will appear.<\/p>\n<p>Go to the <strong>Installed Plugins<\/strong> list and click on the <strong>Delete<\/strong> link, which shows at the bottom of the deactivated plugins name. It will display a confirmation. Press <strong>OK<\/strong> and the plugin will be removed.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-plugin-delete-hellodolly.gif\" \/><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your plugin is not in use or you wish to deactivate it, you can do this from the WordPress admin dashboard. You can also delete deactivated plugins. &nbsp; 1. Login to your WordPress admin dashboard. 2. Under the dashboard menu, hover your mouse over Plugins and then click on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}