Disabling plugins in WordPress

Disabling Plugins in WordPress

At times users get locked out of the admin panel while trying to extend the functionality of plugins. A white screen of death may occur at the same time of demand for plugins deactivation. Mostly plugins get disabled when troubleshooting an error occurrence in WordPress. But there are ways out for this through phpMyAdmin and FTP.

 

How To Deactivate plugins Through FTP;

  • Ensure you login through cpanel file manager

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

on your left of file manager click on public html

  • click on wp-content

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • click on plugins

 

 

  • Select the plugin you wish to delete and left click. Select on delete to disable it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Delete using PhpMyAdmin

  • Go to database in cpanel and select phpMyAdmin
  • open and select a databases
  • in the list look for wp-options
  • In the options there will be one for active plugins
  • choose option value from the list
  • change the value to a;o and click go.
  • The delete process for the plugin becomes successful.

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