# Ability to install and uninstall plugins directly from Admin GUI

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-install-and-uninstall-plugins-directly-from-admin-gui/163872>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [September 13, 2020, 10:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-install-and-uninstall-plugins-directly-from-admin-gui/163872 "2020-09-13T10:37:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-install-and-uninstall-plugins-directly-from-admin-gui/163872/13 "2020-09-20T15:44:32Z")

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AFAIK the challenges are more fundamental than that. As-is the approach doesn’t work with multisite at all.

You also can’t directly uninstall plugins if you inadvertently install something which turns out to be incompatible. It requires ssh access.

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