Now Deactivating WordPress Plugins using FTP is so simple with these steps.

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Let’s take a closer look at Deactivating WordPress Plugins using FTP.

Deactivating WordPress Plugins using FTP

The countless third-party plugins available are among the most helpful features of using WordPress to create a website. For just about anything you might need to do, there is a plugin. However, the most relevant issues with WordPress sites are plugin related. So we may need to disable it occasionally.

If a plugin breaks in a specific way, it will also break the standard plugin-disabling interface. Consequently, we must use FTP to disable a WordPress plugin. It is also not possible to deactivate a plugin with only admin access if the plugin is causing a PHP error that affects both the front-end and back-end, therefore we require FTP to fix such a site.

How To Deactivating WordPress Plugins using FTP?

Our Support team can assist you with simple steps to disable the WordPress plugins using FTP. Here are the steps:

1. Firstly, connect to the server via FTP.
2. Now go to the website’s root folder.
3. Then locate the /wp-content folder.
4. Choose the /plugins folder. If we need to disable all plugins, then rename this folder to something like plugins.disable. This disables all the plugins.

   Else, if we need to disable a particular plugin that causes the error, find the folder name of that plugin. Then rename it.
5. Finally, now reload the site. Now both the front-end and wp-admin will be back up and working.

There is nothing to worry about data loss. The data will be preserved on the WordPress site.

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Conclusion

For just about anything we need to do, there is a plugin available in WordPress. Sometimes, we need to disable the plugins. In this article, our Support team discusses Deactivating WordPress Plugins using FTP.