Title: deactivate_sitewide_plugin
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: February 24, 2026

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# deactivate_sitewide_plugin( $plugin = false )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/deactivate_sitewide_plugin/?output_format=md#description)
    - [See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/deactivate_sitewide_plugin/?output_format=md#see-also)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/deactivate_sitewide_plugin/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/deactivate_sitewide_plugin/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/deactivate_sitewide_plugin/?output_format=md#changelog)

[ Back to top](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/deactivate_sitewide_plugin/?output_format=md#wp--skip-link--target)

This function has been deprecated since 3.0.0. Use [deactivate_plugin()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/deactivate_plugin/)
instead.

Deprecated functionality for deactivating a network-only plugin.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/deactivate_sitewide_plugin/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

### 󠀁[See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/deactivate_sitewide_plugin/?output_format=md#see-also)󠁿

 * [deactivate_plugin()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/deactivate_plugin/)

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/deactivate_sitewide_plugin/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    function deactivate_sitewide_plugin( $plugin = false ) {
    	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '3.0.0', 'deactivate_plugin()' );
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-admin/includes/ms-deprecated.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/includes/ms-deprecated.php#L68)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/includes/ms-deprecated.php#L68-L70)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/deactivate_sitewide_plugin/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Uses | Description | 
| [_deprecated_function()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/_deprecated_function/)`wp-includes/functions.php` |

Marks a function as deprecated and inform when it has been used.

  |

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/deactivate_sitewide_plugin/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [3.0.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.0.0/) | Introduced. |

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