Title: Deactivate Plugins for the admin-area
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Deactivate Plugins for the admin-area

 *  Resolved [BBIndikator](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbindikator/)
 * (@bbindikator)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-plugins-for-the-admin-area/)
 * Hello Jeff,
 * some questions for the right use of your great filters.
 * To become our backend faster, I plan to deactivate there a lot of plugins, too.
   
   I know to do this I have to deactivate the plugins first globally and then it
   is needed to activate them with a filter. That´s fine.
 * Here is the question now: How works your routes exactly? For example our backup
   plugin. This one is a module that will be set up just once. I wanna deactivate
   it after setup, so that it will not load if we access our admin-area. We just
   wanna turn it on in the filter, if we wanna do some changes at settings. Afterward
   we wanna turn it off again.
 * 1. But if we do that, it is still done it´s job or does that mean that it is 
   no more accessible for it´s task?
 * 2. On the otherside. If we deactivate a plugin after setup for front- and backend
   globally, is it the same like to deactivate it in normal plugin settings, or 
   it is just not reachable with frontend- and backend pages but it still do it´
   s work?
 * 3. Is there a way you know to deactivate plugins in admin area but to hold it
   ´s menu-entries in the left menu-area, and just to turn the plugin on for it´
   s settings?
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 *  [pathuri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pathuri/)
 * (@pathuri)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-plugins-for-the-admin-area/#post-5529396)
 * Might be it is a good idea to have a menu based list to enable/disable for the
   back-end
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Sterup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foomagoo/)
 * (@foomagoo)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-plugins-for-the-admin-area/#post-5529529)
 * If you globally disable a plugin then it will never load. The menu comes from
   the code within the plugin . So to have it’s menu items visible it has to be 
   loaded. Disabling the plugin globally will disable it as if you have deactivated
   the plugin on the plugins page. The only place where it won’t disable the plugin
   is on plugins.php.
 *  Thread Starter [BBIndikator](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbindikator/)
 * (@bbindikator)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-plugins-for-the-admin-area/#post-5529531)
 * Feature request: Possibility to deactivate a plugin globally to all pages (backend
   and frontend) but to keep it working in background with it´s settings that gonna
   setup before.. : )
 * On this way it would be possible to work with a lot of nice extensions without
   slow down your site.. : )
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Sterup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foomagoo/)
 * (@foomagoo)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-plugins-for-the-admin-area/#post-5529532)
 * That isn’t possible. You can’t have the plugin functionality if the code is never
   loaded.
 *  Thread Starter [BBIndikator](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbindikator/)
 * (@bbindikator)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-plugins-for-the-admin-area/#post-5529533)
 * Oh, that´s pity.. : )
 * But one last question please for a better understanding..
 * If I understand it right, it is possible to setup a plugin. Afterward deactivate
   it globally and just activate it on the pages where it is needed with all it´
   s settings and possibilities?
 * Thank You
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Sterup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foomagoo/)
 * (@foomagoo)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-plugins-for-the-admin-area/#post-5529536)
 * Yes. You can deactivate a plugin globally and have it only load on the pages 
   you enable it on.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-plugins-for-the-admin-area/#post-5529536)
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