How do I re-download engine built-in plugin (Common UI) after deleting it?

pagi111
Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:04:52 +0000
Pipeline & Plugins

Hi,
I’m really struggling with UE in the last couple of days… This time, I messed something in the engine’s built-in Common UI plugin (which was located at UE_5.7\Engine\Plugins\Runtime).

Long story short - I tried modifying its code, then I learnt that in order to do that I needed to actually copy it to my project, I didn’t manage to get it to work anyway, so now I wanted to reverse all that I did (I made some changes to the copied files in my project, but ALSO to the files in the engine’s folder, before I learned that I had to do that in my project only). The simplest solution, I thought, would be to simply delete the folder …\Runtime\CommonUI.

The problem is, I don’t see any way to re-download the plugin now. If I open the Editor, then Edit→Plugins, it’s not there (which is sort of reasonable, as it doesn’t exist anymore, but there is also no option to download plugins or anything like that). How do I do that?

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