Activate/deactivate plugins from admin bar.
As of April 2026, Admin Bar Plugin Switcher is a WordPress plugins plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 5.2.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Rollback – Rollback Plugins and….
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This plugin adds a menu in admin bar that enables toggling of activation status of plugins. It can be helpful to developers who want to quickly see something before and after plugin is activated.
Note that it has no settings, just activate it and it works immediately for any user that has permission to activate/deactivate plugins. Also note that it is not multisite compatible.
And it’s on GitHub.
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 5.1.22 |
| PHP | 5.2.4+ required |
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