Title: Deactivating plugins
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Deactivating plugins

 *  Resolved [Prancer2016](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prancer2016/)
 * (@prancer2016)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivating-plugins-2/)
 * WordPress tells me to deactivate all plugins before building my multisite connections
   manually. I am a novice and want to use Bitnami WordPress Multisite installer.
   I have been through all the WordPress & Bitnami instructions, but nowhere does
   it answer my question:
 * When I use Bitnami do I deactivate all my plug-ins first?
 * Please answer this one question so I can proceed without harming my existing 
   site.
 * Thanks.

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 *  Moderator [Bet Hannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bethannon1/)
 * (@bethannon1)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivating-plugins-2/#post-7166269)
 * If you are upgrading an existing site (that is, not a new install) that has it’s
   own plugins & other settings and possibly posts/content, I would strongly encourage
   a manual creation of a network. Here are the instructions:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network](http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network)
 * Definitely make backups before you do ANYTHING.
 * If your site is new, and you have only added a couple of plugins in getting started,
   you could simply delete them for now, make your upgrade with Bitnami, and then
   re-add them after you have verified that the multisite network is working.
 * If you decide to proceed with the Bitnami upgrade with the existing site, definitely
   deactivate all those plugins!
 *  Thread Starter [Prancer2016](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prancer2016/)
 * (@prancer2016)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivating-plugins-2/#post-7166271)
 * Thank you for the reply, Bet. I did it manually and everything is working well.

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Prancer2016](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prancer2016/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivating-plugins-2/#post-7166271)
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