Title: Vanilla active_plugins record?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Vanilla active_plugins record?

 *  [heatsink](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heatsink/)
 * (@heatsink)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vanilla-active_plugins-record/)
 * Hello,
 * I’m trying to manually blow out all my plugins because my plugins page is borked.
   Just deleting them from the plugins directory hoses my entire blog. What I’m 
   trying to do is to empty the active_plugins record in the wp-options table at
   the same time I delete all the plugin files from the plugin directory.
 * Problem is, I can’t quite figure out the ’empty’ setting for the active_plugins
   record even though I’ve gone through a bunch of default installation files.
 * So, if I were a brand new WP install (1.5.1.3) with NO plugins enabled, what 
   would me active_plugins record look like in the wp-options table?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vanilla-active_plugins-record/#post-244228)
 * If your blog is breaking because you deactivate a plugin (which is what you are
   effectively doing) then you need to remove all calls to plugin functions.
 * A plugin that is ‘activated’ is simply loaded – nothing else.
 * The default option_value is this:
    `a:1:{i:0;s:0:"";}`
 * but your blog will still break if there is a function being called which is in
   a plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [heatsink](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heatsink/)
 * (@heatsink)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vanilla-active_plugins-record/#post-244229)
 * Thanks.
 * Yeah – I know this is going to be ugly…but I really can’t figure out how else
   to fix it. There’s a plugin that has rendered both my plugin and theme pages 
   unusuable. So, I’m going to default the plugin value and then remove all the 
   calls and see what happens. If my admin functions come back, then I’ll re-add
   the plugins one by one until I know which one is broken.
 * That’s the best plan I can come up with.
 * Thanks!

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 * Last reply from: [heatsink](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heatsink/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vanilla-active_plugins-record/#post-244229)
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