Title: Detecting Installed Plugins
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Detecting Installed Plugins

 *  [notsewmit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/notsewmit/)
 * (@notsewmit)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/detecting-installed-plugins/)
 * I’m working on a plugin that can, though does not need to, use the functionality
   of another plugin.
    Is there a way to detect installed plugins as well as whether
   or not they are activated?

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 *  [Bryan Villarin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btvillarin/)
 * (@btvillarin)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/detecting-installed-plugins/#post-108887)
 * [pluginsUsed](http://www.andrewsw.com/wiki/moin.cgi/pluginsUsedPlugin)
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/detecting-installed-plugins/#post-108889)
 * You can use `get_settings('active_plugins')` to retrieve an array of the filenames
   of active plugins.
 *  [villas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/villas/)
 * (@villas)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/detecting-installed-plugins/#post-109103)
 * I dont know what are wrong but the problem is gone
    I delete all the wp-content
   folder and index.php and upload all folder and index.php again … and works fine!
   Peace

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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [villas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/villas/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/detecting-installed-plugins/#post-109103)
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