Title: Do Plugins Randomly Deactivate?
Last modified: February 23, 2022

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# Do Plugins Randomly Deactivate?

 *  [jenbumpkin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenbumpkin/)
 * (@jenbumpkin)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-plugins-randomly-deactivate/)
 * This morning my client emailed me and said the website wasn’t working correctly.
   I logged in to find that all the plugins had been deactivated. I’ve never seen
   this before. Is it possible for WordPress to just shut down or deactivate plugins,
   or does it absolutely have to be done by someone? We’ve got strong login credentials,
   so I don’t believe it was hacked.

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 *  [corrinarusso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corrinarusso/)
 * (@corrinarusso)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-plugins-randomly-deactivate/#post-15396122)
 * Have you been having syntax errors, or other issues with the functions file in
   your theme or child theme?
    If an auto-update ocurred on your site, and there
   was a Fatal Error, WordPress will automatically deactivate the plugins. Or sometimes
   there is a cURL error, so it can’t make updates properly.
 * Kick this off, and see if there are any critical issues:
    [https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/health-check/](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/health-check/)
 * And maybe run this for a while to see if anything else is going on with your 
   knowledge:
    [https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/)
 *  Thread Starter [jenbumpkin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenbumpkin/)
 * (@jenbumpkin)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-plugins-randomly-deactivate/#post-15396135)
 * Thanks for this feedback!
 *  Thread Starter [jenbumpkin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenbumpkin/)
 * (@jenbumpkin)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-plugins-randomly-deactivate/#post-15400880)
 * Just a note that I’ve had this happen on another website located on the same 
   server! This is really odd.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [jenbumpkin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenbumpkin/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-plugins-randomly-deactivate/#post-15400880)
 * Status: not resolved

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