How to Deactivate All Plugins When Not Able to Access WP-Admin

Deactivate All Plugins Using FTP

In this method, you will need to either use FTP, or your host’s file
manager. Navigate to the /wp-content/ folder. You will see a folder
called plugins. Rename the plugins folder to anything that you like. In
our example, we will call it “plugins.deactivate”. Once you do this, all
of your plugins will be deactivated.


Most of the time when you do this, you are usually locked out of your
admin panel. If the issue was with your plugins, you should be able
login to your /wp-admin/. Once you do that, go back to your /wp-content/
directory and rename “plugins.deactivate” back to plugins. Now you can
activate one plugin at a time until your site breaks again. At which
point, you will know exactly which plugin caused the issue.

Deactivate all plugins using phpMyAdmin

The FTP method is definitely easier in our opinion, however you can
also deactivate all plugins using phpMyAdmin. If you don’t know how to
get to phpMyAdmin, then we recommend using the FTP method above.


In your WordPress database, go in the wp_options table. Locate the
option name “active_plugins”. Now edit the value of that option and
change it to this: a:0:{}


We hope that this article helps you deactivate all plugins in a fairly easy way.





How to Deactivate All Plugins When Not Able to Access WP-Admin