Plugins Deactivator
Disables all WordPress plugins with one click. Remembers which plugins were active so they can also be re-activated with one click.
5(1 reviews)
·100 active installs·Updated 4 years agoAs of April 2026, Plugins Deactivator is a WordPress plugins plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP 5.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Rollback – Rollback Plugins and….
5/51 reviews
100active installs
2.6K+total downloads
6 yearssince 2020
Overview
This plugin adds a button to the top of wp-admin/plugins.php. When clicked, every plugin (except for this one) will be deactivated. However, all active plugins are remembered.
After the plugins are deactivated, a button will appear to reactivate them. This will reactivate only the plugins that were active before – plugins that were inactive will not be enabled.
This is helpful for users who need to troubleshoot plugin conflicts by deactivating plugins in bulk. Without this plugin, you’d have to reactivate plugins based on memory. If there are a lot of plugins running on the site, with numerous plugins that are disabled, this can be difficult to do without first creating a list of what was active and inactive.
With the Plugins Deactivator plugin, you can easily disable all plug…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 5.8.13 |
| PHP | 5.4+ required |
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Changelog
1.0.1
- Improve check for excluding this plugin from Plugins_Deactivator->deactivate_plugins().
- Bump WordPress Test up to version
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