Last day my blog gone down for about 6 hours due to problems with some plugins installed,
even I can’t login to my wordpress dashboard ,
every time I tried to open dashboard login page ,browser opens a blank page! “white screen of death”
my friend Anish Ks who blogs at technicstoday.com shared me a tip to disable plugins using ftp client
whys this happens ? This is due to some plugins may take too much memory which your shared hosting can’t handle ,so i prefer move your blog to a reputed hosting companies like hosgator in order to avoid further downtime .
How to disable all wordpress plugins using ftp client
login to your ftp account (filezilla)
then browse to your “wp-content” folder and rename “plugins” folder to something like “plugins1”
and then open your wordpress dashboard,this will disable all your plugins installed,
and you need to rename it back to “plugins”
after that you can activate or delete plugins one by one
How to disable a single plugin
to disable a specific plugin for example “yarp plugin”,
rename the “yarp” folder located in plugins folder, to “yarp-2”
then open your wordpress dashboard ,
this will disable only the “yarp ”plugin,
then rename it back to “yarp”
then you can delete or activate it again
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Cool Shyam. Hope no problems now
coool way buddy:)
great to see this simple trick!
Thanks a lot man! This really helped me!
You totally saved me with this post. Most of the explanations for how to disable WordPress plugins are for 2.x versions of WordPress. Yours was the first answer I found for WordPress 3.x. Worked like a charm.
When you add your plugins back they will be deactivated. Activate them one-by-one in the WordPress admin console. Reinstall any plugins that you think might have caused the original problem.
Nice post, thanks for this. I had a strange situation on a website where I couldn’t load it up (nor could I load the dashboard). The problem happened sometime in July 2011 (it’s now August) and I didn’t notice it until now (uggg). The problem was due to a plugin that was fetching data from a server. I have to assume something changed on the server side because we didn’t change anything on the plugin. But it still broke the site. So I renamed the plugin folder by adding a -1 after it, and presto … fixed. I could see the site, I could login, all is good.
great Chris, keep visiting
Nice article but there are few things you need to know .Visit http://knowallstuffs.com/how-to-delete-a-plugin-without-accessing-the-dashboard-in-wordpress/ to know more .