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title: How to deactivate WordPress plugins from the cPanel
description: "Disabling or deactivating WordPress plugins is one  of the ways to troubleshoot plugin-related errors on wordpress websites. At some instances, a malfunctioned  or troublesome  plugin may throw errors and bar a user completely from logging into the WordPress dashboard. At…"
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updated: "2024-06-21"
category: WordPress
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# How to deactivate WordPress plugins from the cPanel

Disabling or deactivating WordPress plugins is one  of the ways to troubleshoot plugin-related errors on wordpress websites. At some instances, a malfunctioned  or troublesome  plugin may throw errors and bar a user completely from logging into the WordPress dashboard.

At this  point, you have  the option of deactivating them from the cpanel section. The following are the steps:

**Step I.**

Login to the cpanel and navigate to the root folder of your wordpress installation, for instance (public_html).

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**Step II.**

Open the**Wp-content**folder, to see several other folders including the **plugins** folder. To deactivate **ALL** the plugins , rename the plugins folder  to a name you can recall, in case  you would want to revert. 

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**Step III**

To deactivate a specific plugin, open the  plugins  folder and rename  the **specific plugin folder** name. Remember to do it in a manner  that you can easily revert or bring back the original name to activate it once again. **A tip:**You can do that by adding a letter at the beginning of the name and proceed with troubleshooting:

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**Final**

By following the above steps, you will be able to identify a troublesome plugin for instance by disabling specific plugins  in turns and reloading the site to be able to single out the  problematic plugin in the end.

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