The Simplest Way to Disable WordPress Plugins From C-Panel
This is The Simplest Way to Disable WordPress Plugins From C-Panel. The beauty about using WordPress to make a website is the flexibility it offers. It’s also a relatively easy platform to design world class websites without much technical knowledge. This is mostly because of the thousands of plugins available on the WordPress plugin repository that will enable you customize your website to almost anything you imagine. There is a plug in for almost any feature you might want to add to your website. Yet this is where at times trouble comes through. Plugins can be the loophole to hackers and bugs that can make your website unusable/inaccessible.
Despite all the advantages building a website WordPress comes with, often there will be issues arising depending with your theme and plugins you use. At times a plugin can be incompatible with a theme or WordPress version especially if the plugin has not been updated to be compatible with the current version of WordPress itself or theme version or the other way round. This might make your website inaccessible to you and visitors. It can even make you unable to login to the admin dashboard of your website. When faced with such a scenario the first thing to do is to disable WordPress plugins from the C-Panel.
The Simplest Way to Disable WordPress Plugins From C-Panel
There are two ways to go about it, either disabling all plugins at once or disabling them one by one to figure out which is the culprit. The method below is for quickly determining if the problem is as a result of plugins.
How to disable all WordPress plugins at once from C-Panel
- Login to your C-Panel dashboard.
- Locate the public html folder or wherever you have installed your WordPress website.
- Go to wp-content folder and open it.
- Locate the plugins folder.
- Rename it by right-clicking on it and adding a full stop followed by any word or letter(s). My favorite way of doing it is by adding the word stop like this “plugins.stop”. This makes the folder and it’s content not to function.
- Reload the wp-admin page to see if it works now. If it does then go ahead and login as usual with your login credentials.
However after succeeding with the above it’s hard to tell which plugin is the culprit and that’s why I would advocate you follow the other option explained below. You need to identify the exact culprit.
How to disable WordPress plugins one by one.
- Login to your C-Panel dashboard.
- Locate the public html folder or wherever you have installed your WordPress website.
- Go to wp-content folder and open it.
- Locate the plugins folder.
- Open the folder by double-clicking it to see the plugins on your website.
- Rename each plugin one by one by right-clicking on it and adding a full stop followed by any word or letter(s) e.g. if you want to disable “woocomerce” plugin just right-click and rename to something like “woocomerce.stop”.
- After each renaming one by one reload the wp-admin page to see if it works now until you find the culprit. When it does then go ahead and login as usual with your login credentials.
After identifying the culprit I would advise you rename each plugin to the original name one by one and reloading the wp-admin page to make sure no two or more plugins are causing the problem. You can then delete the plugin(s) either from the C-Panel or via the admin plugin dashboard.
From C-Panel simply right click and choose delete. You can completely delete without sending to trash folder or send to trash folder.
From admin plugin dashboard simply click delete.
I hope you found this article helpful to you. Thanks for reading and all the best in your WordPress endeavors.
The Simplest Way to Disable WordPress Plugins From C-Panel