How to disable dangerous WordPress plugins

What is WordPress used for?
WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that allows you to host and build websites. WordPress contains plugin architecture and a template system, so you can customize any website to fit your business, blog, portfolio, or online store
Is WordPress still free?
WordPress is and continues to be free because it’s not owned by a company. … The WordPress foundation doesn’t make any profit from developing or distributing WordPress: it’s all voluntary work. WordPress has thousands of plugins, some of which are free and some you have to pay for, but they’re all free as in speech

Of course, you can always rely on our WordPress maintenance team to fix WordPress plugin errors. However, if you need to disable dangerous WordPress plugin ASAP and you know you have at least some technical skills, you could try to deactivate the harmful plugin by yourself.

If you want to deactivate it yourself, keep in mind that the admin dashboard may be unavailable, especially if the plugin broke the website. You will need to access to the plugin folder on your website’s server via FTP, SSH or any other remote file manager.

You need to go to the wp-content folder and find the plugins folder inside it. You will see a list of folders, each representing a particular plugin.

The best practice is to deactivate the plugins folder first. You can do it by renaming — for example, by adding a suffix like “-disabled” or “-renamed”, or a prefix “off-”. Then check if the site is available again. If it is, you know that the reason lies in the plugins.

Deactivate the plugins folder

After this check, you can rename the plugins folder back (don’t worry about the site being down again).

The next step is to rename the particular plugin folder.

Deactivate a particular plugin folder

How can you know which plugin is harmful? If you recently installed or updated a particular plugin, or if you see an error pointing to a particular plugin file, then it is probably the one.

If you are not sure which plugin is causing the trouble, rename them one by one. Each time you rename the plugin folder, check if the site is available again.

When you are able to access the admin dashboard of your WordPress site again, go to the Plugins tab, where you will see an error message that the plugin has been deactivated and its directory is not found. The WordPress system will deactivate the plugin automatically in the database.

Even if you revert changes with the plugin folder renaming, the plugin code will not be called and it will not break your website any more.

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