WordPress – Blog broken by Plugin

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At some point in time, nearly every WordPress Blogger will experience a broken WordPress blog due to the recent activation of a non compatible plugin. A broken plugin can wreak all sorts of havoc on a WordPress blog including the inability to access the WordPress administration panel. In most cases, when a blog breaks, the fix is fairly simple.

The following [gs tutorial] outlines a few WordPress quick fixes for a blogger to try when encountering the almost inevitable incompatible WordPress [gs plugin] problem that is causing site errors or limited blog access.

How to Fix a broken WordPress due to recent plugin activation:

This tutorial assumes that you already have an idea of which plugin is breaking WordPress.

1. Using an FTP [gs client], navigate to your WordPress plugin directory/wp-content/plugins;
2. Locate and rename or delete the suspected problem plugin;
3. If you have made any [gs plugin] code modifications to your template files, undo those changes. You can access your theme files from/wp-content/themes/yourtheme/;
4. Once finished, try to log in to your WordPress admin panel.

How to Fix a broken WordPress when you don't know which plugin is the culprit:

1. Create a new directory named Plugins on your [gs computer];
2. Using an FTP client, navigate to your WordPress plugin directory/wp-content/plugins;
3. Move all plugin files from the Plugins directory on the server to the Plugins directory on your [gs computer];
4. Begin moving each plugin one by one back to the WordPress plugins directory until the WordPress problem reoccurs signaling which plugin is the culprit;
5. Delete the culprit plugin.