WordPress Plugins Causing Critical Errors Can Preventing You From Logging In
Locked out of your WordPress backend? Is a plugin causing the critical error? Here’s how to fix it!
Rename Your Plugin Folders Via FTP
By renaming a plugin folder it will disable the plugin inside of WordPress, allowing you to log in and address the issues.
Log into your hosting provider and find/create your FTP account. I like to use a program called FileZilla on Windows to connect to websites using FTP (see how to use ftp).
Once you have your credentials, log in to your site.
Then, navigate to the wp-content/plugins directory. There, you’ll find a list of folders containing all of your plugins, with one plugin per folder.
If you know the name of the plugin causing the issue you can just rename that one and be done.
If you don’t know which plugin is causing the critical error, you’ll need to rename the plugins one by one until you find the culprit.
In FTP, you can right click on the folder and choose “Rename” from the context menu.
Don’t Rename The Plugin Folders Something Crazy
For your plugins to work again you need to rename them back to their original name. So don’t overwrite the whole name of the folder. Just add something to the end of the folder name that you can easily take away.
I like to add “.x” to the end of the folder name. That way when I’m done I can rename the folder back to what it was by simply removing the “.x”.
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