How to Disable All WordPress Plugins at Once

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You’ll find multiple folders with familiar names inside the plugins folder. Each folder represents a plugin.
Find and select the folder with the correct plugin name
Rename it to a different yet recognizable name. For instance, if the plugin’s (i.e. folder’s) name is akismet, then you should rename it to something like _akismet or akismet_disabled.
You’re free to choose any name you want. Just make sure that it doesn’t collide with another plugin’s name and is later recognizable.
Renaming the folder will permanently disable the plugin.
Once you’ve completed these steps, fire up your Country Email List browser and see if the site loads. If the problem is solved – kudos!


You can follow the above process to disable as many plugins as you want. However, if you want to disable all plugins at one go, then this would take a lot of time. There’s a much easier way – rename the plugins folder (to something like plugins_old) and create a new, empty folder labelled plugins. In essence, this would disable all the old plugins in one go. You can move the plugins one by one from the plugins_old folder to plugins, and activate them individually.





When you’ve modified a particular plugin file which caused the WSOD, then simply disable the plugin via FTP and the site should be working again. It is always a good practice to test modified plugins on a backup site. (Jump to the conclusion for a solution).

New Theme Installations
Installing a new theme could create a conflict with an existing plugin – the classic theme-plugin conflict. In such a case, you simply need to disable the newly activated theme and WordPress would automatically revert to its default theme. Make sure you haven’t deleted the default theme (the twenty-something theme). If you have, upload the theme to the themes folder in wp_content.