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Often times during troubleshooting, many sites will recommend deactivate all plugins and
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activate them one by one. What s worst is sometimes you get locked out of your WordPress
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admin panel, so you can t even deactivate the plugins in an easy way. If you have ever faced the
white screen of death, then you know exactly what we are talking about. In this article, we will
show you how to deactivate all WordPress plugins when not able to access wp­admin area.
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There are two methods to disabling your plugins. One requires you to use FTP, and the other
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In this method, you will need to either use FTP, or your host s file manager. Navigate to the
/wp­content/ folder. You will see a folder called plugins. Rename the plugins folder to anything
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that you like. In our example, we will call it  plugins.deactivate . Once you do this, all of your
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plugins will be deactivated.
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Most of the time when you do this, you are usually locked out of your admin panel. If the issue Connection in WordPress
was with your plugins, you should be able login to your /wp­admin/. Once you do that, go back
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to your /wp­content/ directory and rename  plugins.deactivate back to plugins. Now you can
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The FTP method is definitely easier in our opinion, however you can also deactivate all plugins
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using phpMyAdmin. If you don t know how to get to phpMyAdmin, then we recommend using
the FTP method above.
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In your WordPress database, go in the wp_options table. Locate the option name
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RUHI
May 29, 2016 at 4:12 am
Hiee& when I try to load my site it says this page isn t working also it says
yoursite.com can t handle this record and moreover am unable to acess my wordpress
dashboard when I try entering the wp­admin it show blank white page please help!!
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PREVISHA
May 10, 2016 at 11:45 am
Thanks, this really helped me out.
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May 10, 2016 at 2:01 am
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