{"id":70571,"date":"2016-05-19T16:11:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T20:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/?p=70571"},"modified":"2018-02-09T08:05:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:05:54","slug":"wordpress-how-to-re-install-a-plugin-manually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wordpress-how-to-re-install-a-plugin-manually.html","title":{"rendered":"WordPress. How to re-install a plugin manually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this tutorial you will learn the way to re-install a plugin manually in WordPress.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"video-container\">\r\n\t<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W9JkS3zTKlE\"><\/iframe>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p>If, for some reason, you are not able to update a plugin via the WordPress admin panel, you can just re-upload it manually via FTP or File Manager. To do it, you should perform the following steps:<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li><p>Log in your WordPress admin panel, navigate to the <strong>Plugins<\/strong> menu and deactivate a plugin you need to re-upload.<\/p>\r\n\t\r\n<a class=\"darkbox\" href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually1\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-70575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually1-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\t<li><p>Then click <strong>Delete<\/strong> link under the plugin title to remove the old plugin version.<\/p>\r\n\t\r\n\t<a class=\"darkbox\" href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually2\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-70576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually2-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><p>In the appeared window click the <strong>&quot;Yes, delete these files&quot;<\/strong> button to remove all plugin files from the server.<\/p>\r\n\t\r\n\t<a class=\"darkbox\" href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually3\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-70572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually3-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually3.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><p>After the selected plugin is deleted, navigate to <strong>wp-content\/plugins<\/strong> directory on your server using FTP manager or File Manager in the Hosting Control Panel. Upload the new plugin version archive to this directory and extract it there. You will see the plugin folder appeared after extracting the archive files.<\/p>\r\n\t\r\n\t<a class=\"darkbox\" href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually4-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually4\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-70573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually4-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><p>Finally, you should go back to the <strong>Plugins<\/strong> menu in the admin panel, refresh the page and activate the updated plugin.<\/p>\r\n\t\r\n\t<a class=\"darkbox\" href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually5-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually5\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-70574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually5-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wordpress_how_to_re-install_plugin_manually5.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>This is the end of the tutorial. Now you know how to re-install a plugin manually in WordPress.<\/p>\r\n<p>Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below: <\/p> \r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W9JkS3zTKlE?width=1280&amp;height=720\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\">WordPress. How to re-install a plugin manually<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this tutorial you will learn the way to re-install a plugin manually in WordPress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":70579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[728],"tags":[1147,768,2405],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83996,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70571\/revisions\/83996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}