Title: Finding inactive plugins
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Finding inactive plugins

 *  [jbbrwcky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbbrwcky/)
 * (@jbbrwcky)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finding-inactive-plugins/)
 * I used is_plugin_active() to find installed and active plugins. But is there 
   a function, or a method to find an installed, but not currently active plugin?
 * I’ve tried file_exists() and is_file() to check for files that are known to exist
   in the plugin directory, but for some reason doesn’t seem to work. Any simple
   method?
 * Thanks,
    Richard

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