You can prevent the deactivation of one or more plugins installed on your WordPress site, especially if you have customised mandatory plugins for your client sites. This article will show you how to add a simple PHP function to your WordPress site to prevent users from deactivating important plugins.
Follow the steps below to edit your Theme setting file to restricting users from deactivating specific plugins :
On the Theme Editor, select the Theme you want to edit from the dropdown:
The files for this selected theme are listed on the right column under Theme Files. Click on the file named “functions.php”:
The code below deactivates both wpforms and woocommerce installed in their respective folders:
Insert the following code to the end of functions.php file and click Update File Button to save the changes:
add_filter( 'plugin_action_links', 'disable_plugin_deactivation', 10, 4 ); function disable_plugin_deactivation( $actions, $plugin_file, $plugin_data, $context ) { if ( array_key_exists( 'deactivate', $actions ) && in_array( $plugin_file, array( 'wpforms/wpforms.php', 'woocommerce/woocommerce.php' ))) unset( $actions['deactivate'] ); return $actions; }
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