Title: Need Clarification on Deactivating Plugin
Last modified: July 30, 2019

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# Need Clarification on Deactivating Plugin

 *  Resolved [lmoffen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmoffen/)
 * (@lmoffen)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-clarification-on-deactivating-plugin/)
 * This is probably a simple question, but it never hurts to ask.
 * If I disable all the settings that I did with this plugin and then deactivate
   it, will the website go back to the way it was? For example, any css unload setting
   will go back to “load” and the css will load like it used to.
 * I’m trying to trouble shoot a problem on a website that has occurred recently.
   I don’t think this plugin caused the problem, but I want to get the site back
   to where it was before I installed this plugin and selected some unload css options
   for the home page. I only tried settings for that page.

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 *  Plugin Author [Gabe Livan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabelivan/)
 * (@gabelivan)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-clarification-on-deactivating-plugin/#post-11784802)
 * [@lmoffen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmoffen/) The website will go 
   back the way it was even if you don’t disable any of the plugin settings. Once
   you deactivate the plugin, it will be like you never had it installed in the 
   first place with a few differences:
 * 1) The latest cached CSS/JS files (in case you use minify/combine features) from/
   wp-content/cache/asset-cleanup/ will still be there in case references to those
   files are made from cached pages done by other plugins or the hosting company.
 * 2) The settings will still be preserved in the database (inactive records, of
   course), in case you reactivate the plugin later. Many users deactivate & activate
   the plugin back for debugging purposes. Plus, some upgrade to the Pro version
   and they have to delete the Lite version first.
 *  Thread Starter [lmoffen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmoffen/)
 * (@lmoffen)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-clarification-on-deactivating-plugin/#post-11784891)
 * Thank you for the clarification!
 * I thought that was the case, but just wanted to check and I wasn’t able to find
   the answer.

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 * Last reply from: [lmoffen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmoffen/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-clarification-on-deactivating-plugin/#post-11784891)
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