# How do I activate plugins? \[Vagrant local dev installation\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [September 8, 2015, 9:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-activate-plugins-vagrant-local-dev-installation/33018 "2015-09-08T09:29:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![devlesedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@devlesedi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/devlesedi)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 9:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-activate-plugins-vagrant-local-dev-installation/33018/1 "2015-09-08T09:29:54Z")
LazyTY and Poll come already installed. After I vagrant ssh’d and cloned a plugin into /vagrant/plugins, I can’t seem to get the plugin to activate. ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/1/a1acea0b7f2e7683677588a325e980d2608037b5.png) ---
**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 9:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-activate-plugins-vagrant-local-dev-installation/33018/2 "2015-09-08T09:32:09Z")
LazyYT doesn’t need to be “activated” and poll is already “activated” (cf. the “`Y`” in the **Enabled?** column). ---
**Author:** ![devlesedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@devlesedi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/devlesedi)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 10:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-activate-plugins-vagrant-local-dev-installation/33018/3 "2015-09-08T10:24:20Z")
Im sorry, i meant to say LazyYT and Poll come already _activated_. I wanted to activate the other 2 which are grey’d out. ---
**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 10:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-activate-plugins-vagrant-local-dev-installation/33018/4 "2015-09-08T10:44:20Z")
Those are old plugins that might not support the new API to enable/disable a plugin. If they’re not broken, they should already be working 😉 ---
**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 11:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-activate-plugins-vagrant-local-dev-installation/33018/5 "2015-09-08T11:50:33Z")
Also the fact that some are blue and some are just black/gray text simply indicates if a URL was given in the plugin.rb file for that given plugin. It doesn’t mean enabled/disabled. ---
**Author:** ![devlesedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@devlesedi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/devlesedi)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 12:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-activate-plugins-vagrant-local-dev-installation/33018/6 "2015-09-08T12:24:54Z")
That must be it. i wasn’t aware of those facts. After using the search feature under _settings_, I did find their settings but it seems they are not supported by the current version as you mentioned. Thanks anyway 😅 ---
**Author:** ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-activate-plugins-vagrant-local-dev-installation/33018/7 "2015-09-08T16:36:28Z")
> [@zogstrip](#): > > Those are old plugins that might not support the new API to enable/disable a plugin. This is not the first time I’ve seen this confuse people. We might want to have it so that if a plugin doesn’t support the API is displays active (with no toggle). It’s less confusing. ---
**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-activate-plugins-vagrant-local-dev-installation/33018/8 "2015-09-08T17:29:06Z")
This commit should hopefully make it clearer 🐎 [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/0e02e0272d19f4e152deea6b258149573e8b0532](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/0e02e0272d19f4e152deea6b258149573e8b0532) ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-activate-plugins-vagrant-local-dev-installation/33018/9 "2015-09-08T20:52:03Z")