How to Disable All WordPress Plugins from cPanel (Step-by-Step Guide)

To disable all WordPress plugins from cPanel, you can use the File Manager to rename the plugins folder. Here's how:

1. Log into cPanel and open the File Manager
2. Navigate to your WordPress installation folder, typically public_html or a subdirectory
3. Go to the wp-content folder
4. Find the "plugins" folder and right-click on it
5. Select "Rename" and change it to something like plugins_disabled or plugins.old

This immediately deactivates all plugins because WordPress can't find the plugins folder anymore.

Once you've resolved whatever issue you're troubleshooting, you can:

• Rename it back to plugins to reactivate all plugins
• Or rename it back and then selectively disable individual plugins through the WordPress admin dashboard

Disable a Specific WordPress Plugin from cPanel

If you only want to disable one plugin:

1. Navigate to wp-content/plugins
2. Find the folder of the specific plugin you want to disable
3. Right-click on that plugin's folder and select Rename
4. Add something like _disabled to the end of the folder name (e.g., rename contact-form-7 to contact-form-7_disabled)

This will deactivate just that one plugin while leaving all others active. To reactivate it later, simply rename the folder back to its original name.

Once your site is back up and running, you can easily reactivate your plugins and identify which one was causing the issue. Keep this method in your troubleshooting toolkit; it might just save your site one day.

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