{"id":17508,"date":"2019-06-05T18:30:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T22:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/?p=17508"},"modified":"2021-08-24T12:21:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T16:21:20","slug":"disabling-a-plugin-with-wp-cli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wordpress-tutorials\/disabling-a-plugin-with-wp-cli\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabling a Plugin with WP-CLI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Disabling a Plugin with WP-CLI<\/h1>\n

If you are troubleshooting a WordPress Fatal Error<\/a> and you need to disable a Plugin without access to your WordPress dashboard, you can use these instructions to disable it using the WordPress Command Line Interface, or WP-CLI.<\/p>\n

SSH<\/strong> into your WordPress hosting account<\/a>, using your Web Host’s instructions for doing so.<\/li>\n

Change directories<\/strong> to the root directory containing your WordPress installation. In these examples, the directory ~\/public_html<\/strong> is used in place of the root directory for WordPress.\nuser@wordpress [~]$ cd ~\/public_html\/<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
Get a list of your plugins<\/strong> with the command wp plugin list<\/strong>:\nuser@wordpress [~\/public_html]$ wp plugin list\r\n+-------------------------------+----------+--------+----------+\r\n| name | status | update | version |\r\n+-------------------------------+----------+--------+----------+\r\n| akismet | active | none | 4.1.2 |\r\n| boldgrid-backup | active | none | 1.9.3 |\r\n| boldgrid-backup-premium | active | none | 1.1.2 |\r\n| hello | inactive | none | 1.7.2 |\r\n| jetpack | inactive | none | 7.4 |\r\n+-------------------------------+----------+--------+----------+<\/pre>\n
In this example, the plugins Akismet, Total Upkeep (previously known as BoldGrid Backup<\/a>), and Total Upkeep Premium are currently active, and the list of names, or slugs<\/strong>, shows the other inactive plugins you have installed..<\/p><\/li>\n
Deactivate a plugin<\/strong> using the command wp plugin deactivate plugin-slug<\/strong> where “plugin-slug” is replaced with the name of the plugin you saw from the previous command:\n
user@wordpress [~\/public_html]$ wp plugin deactivate akismet\r\nPlugin 'akismet' deactivated.\r\nSuccess: Deactivated 1 of 1 plugins.<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
If you receive an error, you may need to add one of the following modifiers to your command: —skip-themes <\/strong>or –skip-plugins<\/strong>\n
user@wordpress [~\/public_html]$ wp plugin deactivate akismet --skip-themes --skip-plugins\r\nPlugin 'akismet' deactivated.\r\nSuccess: Deactivated 1 of 1 plugins.<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
Optionally, if you’re running a WordPress Multisite Network<\/strong>, and you’d like to disable the plugin for all of the sites on the network, add the modifier –network<\/strong> to your command, like so:\n
user@wordpress [~\/public_html]$ wp plugin deactivate akismet --network<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Congratulations! You now know how to deactivate a plugin using WP-CLI.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Disabling a Plugin with WP-CLI If you are troubleshooting a WordPress Fatal Error and you need to disable a Plugin without access to your WordPress dashboard, you can use these instructions to disable it using the WordPress Command Line Interface, or WP-CLI. SSH into your WordPress hosting account, using your Web Host’s instructions for doing so. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[661],"class_list":["post-17508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress-tutorials","tag-wordpress-tutorial","experience-level-advanced"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17508"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42102,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508\/revisions\/42102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}