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As promised in the previous post, this is a tutorial on how to deactivate ALL wordpress plugins through phpMyAdmin.

Firstly, I would like to tell and remind you that phpMyAdmin is a powerfull tool that allows you to modify whatever you wish. So be careful when handling it.

This is a part of solutions if you cant access your dashboard panel to deactivate the plugins. Other solutions can be as deleting or moving the plugin through your cpanel or ftp.

To disable all plugins using phpMyAdmin, login to your cpanel and click phpMyAdmin icon. After that, select your wordpress database that you want to alter.

Images below will appear after you have selected your database.

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You can drag it aside after that.

1. Select the wp_options table from your database.
2. Turn to ‘Browse’ tab.
3. Under the option_name column (field), look for active_plugins.
4. Then, click the pencil icon to edit the option_value.

   !Note: If you couldn’t find the active_plugins row, click the next button. You will find it on the next page.



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You can drag it aside after that.

5. Go to the option_value text area as highlighted in the above images. Select all the codes inside the area and replace it with a:0:{}
6. Click ‘Go’ button to save the setting.

After you have done those steps, go to your wordpress login page and you are ready to access it again.

Extra note: Activate your plugin one-by-one to find which plugin is the ‘culprit’. You may need to wait until the plugin author released the newer compatible plugin version.

Hope this can help you. More info, go to Wordpress support forum.