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Meks Quick Plugin Disabler

Temporarily disable (and restore) all currently active plugins with a single click

By Meks·Debug·Free
5(7 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 year ago
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As of April 2026, Meks Quick Plugin Disabler is a WordPress debug plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 7 reviews. It has been downloaded 18K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 20% this week. Top alternative: WP Crontrol.

5/57 reviews
2.0K+active installs
18K+total downloads
9 yearssince 2017

Overview

Main purpose of Meks Quick Plugin Disabler is to quickly find out if any recent issue you are having on your website is related to the one of currently active plugins.

It is made for developers, techical support engineers, as well as for regular WordPress users. Sometimes, usually after updating your plugins, themes or WordPress installation, strange issues may appear and mess the things up. This plugin provides a really neat way to check the problem.

Benefits

  • Huge time saver when debugging websites with lots of plugins
  • Neat solution instead of forced plugin deactivation via FTP (i.e. changing the plugins folder name)

Meks Quick Plugin Disabler is created by Meks

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Ratings & Reviews

57 reviews
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Recent Reviews

It does exactly what it says in the tin
by danielepais·8 months ago

Excellent plugin to quick debut and resolve a plugin conflict. I normally used to stop them from running from the CP but with this plugin I don’t even have to use CP or FTP, can deactivate and restore with a simple click.

Good idea
by jenkinsmi·3 years ago

What a great idea ehy

Very handy plugin for troubleshooting
by inspired888·4 years ago

This is a great plug-in, making it very easy to one-click disable all active plugins, and one-click re-activate them. My one concern, before testing it, was whether I’d be able to individually enable a few plugins, and still be able to later one-click enable all the others that were previously enabled.

When troubleshooting it’s ofter necessary to have a least a few plugins active for the process, either because that’s the plug-in your trying to find compatibility issues with, or because you need that plugin running in order to even use the site as intended (like WooCommerce on a ecommerce site). The short answer is, yes, you can one-by-one activate plugins as needed, and then bulk re-activate the remaining plugins.

UPDATE Aug 2024: Two years later, and I pretty much install this plugin on every site I work with. It’s a must-have in my opinion for anyone managing and/or developing WordPress sites.

  • This topic was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by inspired888.
Savior of a Tool
by Duke Snoogens·4 years ago

Where has this tool been my whole life?
It makes troubleshooting faster instead of me manually “renaming” the plug-in folder.

I used to save a PDF of my active plugins just to keep track, but with this tool I can simply click on or off.

Makes debugging easier
by titsmaker·6 years ago

If for some reason you can’t use troubleshooting mode to deactivate all plugins this plugin comes to rescue. Letting you deactivate and reactivate all your plugins in one click.

Download Trends

Today: 5Yesterday: 5This week: 49Period total: 2K

Compatibility

WordPress3.7+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v1.0
100.0%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.0

  • Initial release
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

MeksMeks
Plugin Info
Version
1.0
Last Updated
Jul 29, 2024
WP Requires
3.7+
Tested Up To
6.6.5
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
2.0K+
Downloads
18K+
Added
Jan 3, 2017
Business
Free

Tags

debugdisablepluginsactivatedeactivate

Developer

M
Meks
14 plugins0.1M+ total installs
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