Title: Activate Plugin During Install
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Activate Plugin During Install

 *  [lucentminds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucentminds/)
 * (@lucentminds)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activate-plugin-during-install/)
 * Does anyone know if there a way I can edit the installation files of wordpress
   to allow a plugin to be active by default? This way I can make suree that certain
   plugins are running when I create multiple wordpress installations.

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 *  [khangngo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khangngo/)
 * (@khangngo)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activate-plugin-during-install/#post-614842)
 * I’m having trouble activating a few plugins, does anybody know why. Some of the
   plugins I can activate but others such as copyfeed and share-this I can’t activate(
   they don’t show up in the plugin section after I extract/ftp the files to my 
   plugin folder).
 *  [PJ Brunet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knowingart_com/)
 * (@knowingart_com)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activate-plugin-during-install/#post-614899)
 * Lucentminds, I’d like the know the same thing. The “5-minute” install is just
   how long it takes to upload the files 😉 Configuring everything can take several
   hours. Maybe like you I’m looking to streamline the process. I’m making progress.
 * Somehow WP knows which plugins are activated. I might start digging in MySQL 
   to see where it’s “activated”. BUT, Akismet requires an activation code, which
   might further complicate this “auto-activation” idea.
 * I wonder what would happen if I copied all the MySQL table info from an existing
   blog, then wouldn’t all the plugins/settings be right? Or is that a bad idea?

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 * [plugins install](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/plugins-install/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [PJ Brunet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knowingart_com/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activate-plugin-during-install/#post-614899)
 * Status: not resolved

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