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Manually Updating WordPress Using FTP

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On January 21, 2019

In Tutorials

Update

Quite isn’t a task on updating WordPress manually using FTP. You often noticed a notification in your admin area when WordPress comes to a stage where a new update is require running the whole of system smoothly. The updates can be a new minor release or sometimes a major one. While you can perform the task simply by doing so via WordPress admin area but sometimes it can’t be possible and you will found yourself in the situation where you have to resist on manual update with using an FTP client.

To Begin

  • In order to proceed with manual doing, you have to first take a backup of whole of system.
  • In case, if you don’t have any access to WordPress admin area, then you have to do this manually.
  • Once you done with backup, you need to download a latest version copy of WordPress from the site WordPress.org.
  • The downloaded file comes in zip archive, which you have to extract. In that zip archive file, you will notice on finding a folder named “wordpress.”

Uploading WordPress Using FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

  • To begin, first connect your website using FTP client. We recommend on using Core FTP LE, if in case, you don’t already have a FTP client installed on your computer.
  • Once connected, go to your website’s root directory and upload all the files inside “wordpress” folder from your computer to your website’s root directory.
  • Since the similar set of files already installed in your computer, you will notice that you will be getting a message that the filename already exists in the target directory, please choose an option.
  • All you have to do is to overwrite it and then the box “always use this action.”

Updating WordPress Database

  • Remember with every new WordPress release, changes must come into WordPress database which means an update is required.
  • On uploading of all the files to your website, all you have to is to go to WordPress admin area where you will see a note that you need to update database.
  • Simply click on Update WordPress Database button and you are done, once WordPress will show you a success message once updation got completely.

Deactivating All WordPress Plugins Without WP-Admin Access

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On August 13, 2013

In Plugins, Tutorials

On & Off

Surprisingly hundreds of times troubleshooting does not leads to give you proper results as one or more plugins have not deactivated and/or re-activated properly as it have to be. More the worst is it will leads you even towards get locked out you out of your own WordPress admin panel (basically an oops! Here) resulting in you can’t deactivate any of these plugins in an easy manner.

The condition makes you lead and think that what can possible be done in order to get the issue solved. In this article, we discussed the two possible methods with which you can disable all your plugins without worrying about WP-Admin access. If in case some problem comes between either by deactivating or got any further query, do revert us back via comment box below.

Using FTP

  1. Login to your FTP panel or your host’s file manager
  2. Once in, navigate to the /wp-content/folder where you will see a folder called plugins.
  3. Rename the folder with some different name, say plugins_old.
  4. Once you done with renaming, all of your plugins got deactivated all at once.
  5. If problem are with your plugins, then doing the above will leads you get into your /wp-admin/ after login.
  6. Once you done, go again back to your FTP panel and rename the plugins_old in your /wp-content/directory to plugins.
  7. Now activate each of plugins one at a time and you are done.
  8. Make sure, the problem which is behind the cause of problem, you do report to its author about the error.

Using phpMyAdmin

  1. Once you are in your site’s phpMyAdmin, go to your WordPress database.
  2. In your WordPress database, go  in the wp_options table
  3. Here locate the option name as “activate_plugins” and edit the value of that option and change it to a:0:{}

Although the second method – using phpMyAdmin is much easier as compared to first, but its good if you are not aware much of your cPanel or even deeper of your phpMyAdmin activities well, then it’s better to opt for using FTP method to deactivate all your WordPress plugins.

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