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- Navigate to your Web Host’s File Manager or login via FTP <\/strong>using your Web Host’s instructions to do so.<\/li>\n
- Navigate to the WordPress root directory<\/strong> for the site that you are troubleshooting, then navigate to the wp-content\/plugins<\/strong> directory.<\/li>\n
- Rename the plugin directory<\/strong> to something easy to remember, such as pluginname-back<\/strong>, where “pluginname” is replaced with the actual name of the plugin.
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<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nCongratulations! You now know how to disable a plugin using a file browser, or FTP.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Disabling a Plugin with FTP or File Manager If you are troubleshooting a WordPress fatal error, and you need to disable a plugin without access to the WordPress Dashboard and you cannot use WP-CLI to disable the plugin, you can follow these instructions to deactivate a plugin using your FTP or web host’s File Manager. […]<\/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-17512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress-tutorials","tag-wordpress-tutorial","experience-level-intermediate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17512","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=17512"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36822,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17512\/revisions\/36822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldgrid.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Navigate to the WordPress root directory<\/strong> for the site that you are troubleshooting, then navigate to the wp-content\/plugins<\/strong> directory.<\/li>\n