Title: Deactivate plugin manually
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Deactivate plugin manually

 *  [nicorten](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicorten/)
 * (@nicorten)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-plugin-manually/)
 * Hi there
 * I use the latest wordpress on my website and tried to install the minipost2 –
   plugin, which needs the widget plugin. I activated both of them, then due to 
   troubles, tried to deactivate the widget-plugin. Now the whole site doesn’t load.
   Only by deleting the two plugin-folders I could fix this. Now I’d like to remove
   and deactivate the plugins manually, because as soon as I upload the folders 
   again, the site doesn’t load correctly. Is this a file I have to change or in
   the DB?
 * Thanks for the help in advance

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 *  [Trahald](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trahald/)
 * (@trahald)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-plugin-manually/#post-523598)
 * Found this old post while looking for a solution myself.
 * If you forget to deactivate plugins before an upgrade, your upgrade can break.
 * The solution is to go to the wp_option table in your WordPress database, and 
   look for the row with option_name ‘active_plugins’. Then empty this row’s ‘option_value’
   field. This should deactivate all plugins.

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-plugin-manually/#post-523598)
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