Title: Plugin Data Storage
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Plugin Data Storage

 *  [tcaldwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tcaldwell/)
 * (@tcaldwell)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-data-storage/)
 * Where is the information stored that my blog is using a particular Plugin. I 
   can’t find a data table in phpMyAdmin or a text flat file. Ive got a conflict
   between Plugins and I need to manually change the Active variable for the Plugin.
 * thanks
    T Caldwell EZSGBlog.com

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-data-storage/#post-146239)
 * Which version of WP? Which plugins? Why can’t you deactivate it through the Plugin
   manager interface?
 *  Thread Starter [tcaldwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tcaldwell/)
 * (@tcaldwell)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-data-storage/#post-146311)
 * Version 1.2, the plugins are textile1 and textile2. They have functions with 
   the same names, so when you install both of them, the whole blog fails due to
   an error similar to “cannot redeclare function xyz on line 54 of textile2.php
   has already been declared in line 64 of textile1.php
 * This error causes the whole blog to fail, so you cant deactive either of them.
 * So, I need to find where the Activate logic is coming from, so I can manually
   change it back to deactivated
 * I really appreciate any help on this one.
 * Thanks
    Tedd
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-data-storage/#post-146362)
 * Just delete one or both of the plugin files, that’ll do the trick.
 *  Thread Starter [tcaldwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tcaldwell/)
 * (@tcaldwell)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-data-storage/#post-146377)
 * Yes, I did that, and it worked. Thanks.
 * I’d still like to know where the data is stored that says “Yes, the user has 
   Activated this plugin.”
 * Here is where I’ve looked:
    1.The database, specifically in the options tables,
   though there is some data there that I don’t understand. 2. The whole website
   for a text or flat file 3. In the plugin files themselves
 * Basically, Ive spent 2 days looking for this info.
 *  [Michael Adams (mdawaffe)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdawaffe/)
 * (@mdawaffe)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-data-storage/#post-146379)
 * It’s stored as an array in your database:
    Options Table active_plugins row
 * I wouldn’t edit it unless you know what you’re doing.
 *  Thread Starter [tcaldwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tcaldwell/)
 * (@tcaldwell)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-data-storage/#post-146419)
 * active_plugins is not a row in my Options table
 * Here is the if statement in wp-admin/plugins.php for the case of an activation
   of a plugin:
    if (‘activate’ == $_GET[‘action’]) { $current = “\n” . get_settings(‘
   active_plugins’) . “\n”; $current = preg_replace(“|(\n)+\s*|”, “\n”, $current);
   $current = trim($current) . “\n ” . trim($_GET[‘plugin’]); $current = trim($current);
   $current = preg_replace(“|\n\s*|”, “\n”, $current); update_option(‘active_plugins’,
   $current); header(‘Location: plugins.php?activate=true’); } Looks like its trying
   to parse the data from a flat file to me.
 * Any ideas?
 *  [Joshua Sigar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alphaoide/)
 * (@alphaoide)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-data-storage/#post-146420)
 * ` $current = "n" . get_settings("active_plugins") . "n";`
 *  That line aboves says getting setting of active plugins from Options table, 
   row active_plugins.
 * If you don’t see the row, you might need to click on “next page”; my phpmyadmin
   shows 30 rows/page
 *  Thread Starter [tcaldwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tcaldwell/)
 * (@tcaldwell)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-data-storage/#post-146421)
 * thanks for your help, its greatly appreciated

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 8 replies
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 * Last reply from: [tcaldwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tcaldwell/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-data-storage/#post-146421)
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