Disable Plugins.md

Disable Plugins

Quickly disable all plugins in WordPress.

Usage

This plugin needs to go into the wp-content/mu-plugins/ directory. Provided you have SSH access to the server where WordPress lives, you can do this:

cd $SITE_ROOT/wp-content/mu-plugins
curl -LO 'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/JPry/8026015/raw/disable-plugins.php'

If you only have S/FTP access to the server, then you will need to first download the files. Once you have download the zip file, unzip it and upload just the disable-plugins.php file to your wp-content/mu-plugins/ directory of your site.

Once you are done with this file, simply remove it and all of your plugins will be reactivated.

disable-plugins.php

<?php
/**
 * Plugin Name: Disable All Plugins
 * Plugin URI: https://gist.github.com/JCPry/8026015
 * Description: Short-circuits the function in WordPress that determines which plugins are activated, and tells WordPress that no plugins are activated
 * Version: 1.0
 * Author: Jeremy Pry
 * Author URI: http://jeremypry.com/
 */

add_filter( 'pre_option_active_plugins', '__return_empty_array' );
add_filter( 'pre_site_option_active_sitewide_plugins', '__return_empty_array' );