Bulk deactivate and activate WordPress plugins. Fantastic for discovering plugin conflicts and fixing support items. This is an essential tool for discovering plugin conflicts. When you have an error on your site you should isolate where the problem is occuring. It will often be a theme of a plugin. This let's you deactivate your plugins in bulk so you can isolate the problem.
The plugin lets you:
- Add exceptions, so essenttial plugins will not be deactivated
- Save a list of the plugins deactivated
- Let you activate the plugins you just deactivated.
- Let's you activate just a selection of the plugins just deactivated
- Advanced options for how the plugin save list is handled
Install and Activate
Head to Plugins > Bulk Deactivate
Pressing the deactivate button will deactivate all plugins except itself.
The list of deactivated plugins is then saved on the right hand side. You can activate all of these or choose to activate only a selection.
In the advanced settings area you can change how the the saved list is overwritten.
Please note that plugin data should not be lost when deactivating your plugins.