URGENT – How can I reactivate plugins when faced with white screen?

  • Resolved flowergirl

    (@flowergirl)


    7 years, 5 months ago

    Question — Can I Activate plugins via PHPmyAdmin?

    Urgent — HELP!!!

    1) I was Trying to troubleshoot a plugin that when activated generated white screen of death.
    2) During that process, I deactivated (via WP back end) several suspect plugins.
    3) The screen returned white screen.

    The site is using a mix of Bootstrap and other dev tools (I’m not too familiar with), and the typical wp-config.php is hi-jacked somewhat and wp-settings.php is used. I tried to enable WP_DEBUG, in wp-config.php, but it only works if I rename wp-settings.php and then just says that it can’t find wp-settings.php. (I’m working on figuring out how to activate DEBUG in wp-settings.)

    Plugins such as: KingComposer, Google language translator, crelly-slider, search-everything, relevanssi, wp-slick-slider-and-image-carosel, gravity forms, wp-cerber, wordpress-seo, redirection, wp-views, types, layouts (part of Toolset)

    Theme is customized. I uploaded twentysixteen and renamed custom theme, no help.

    site: namc-oregon.org

    I found this page below, but, honestly, I’m not sure where to execute these commands, In PHP myAdmin? How exactly do I create the syntax for it? I’m not a PHP or MYsql person, but can cut and paste.

    https://developer.www.ads-software.com/cli/commands/plugin/activate/

    Thank you community!!

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)
  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    If you cannot access wp-admin, there are other ways to deactivate plugins.

    CLI is when you have access to the command line interface on the server running WordPress. If you’re using an ordinary web-hosting service, then you have most probably NOT this type of access. It would rather come with a VPS-service or similar.

    It might be possible to change some values in the database to re-activate some plugins, but in that case you’d be circumventing some checks and configuration that may be proprietary to each plugin. So better to really use the correct procedure.
    Oh, and I don’t think re-activating any plugins will give you your site back. If you’ve turned off all plugins, then next step might be to rename the theme folder to enforce a standard theme to be used instead.

    By the way: Now and then there may be security updates to twentysixteen. A much better approach would be to set up a child theme instead, with just your customizations to the parent theme.

    Why can’t you just change the debug parameter in wp-config.php? What kind of server setup do you have? Have you checked file access rights?

    Thread Starter flowergirl

    (@flowergirl)

    For all: I was able to get the debug working. (Bootstrap seemed to hide it in a config folder at the root level.) Now I’m getting this error that I’m starting to look into:

    Fatal error: Call to a member function set_template_path() on a non-object in /home/username/public_html/wp-content/themes/hrl-namc/resources/admin/actions.php on line 14

    Looks like a theme issue, but affecting both front and back end.

    Steve – Thanks for reply, but it’s not DE-activating I need (I can do that by moving or renaming from plugins folder via FTP).
    I need to RE-activate.

    Tor-Bjorn – Thanks for the insight about reactivating the plugins possibly not helping. I need to give it a shot, though, at least for a couple of the design plugins?? Seems like the back end should be working if that were the issue. So I can try that in the DB? Is there a master table that contains them or would it be within each plugin’s table set?

    I wish the site had been set up with a child theme, but it was not, and in addition, a default theme wasn’t left in place. Ugh (not my original setup).

    Host is GoDaddy, shared environment.

    Thanks again —
    I’m tearing my hair out!

    1. Download https://www.ads-software.com/themes/twentyseventeen/ to your computer
    2. Unzip it
    3. Upload the folder twentyseventeen to wp-content/themes/
    4. Rename your current theme folder and try again.
    Thread Starter flowergirl

    (@flowergirl)

    Thank you Tor-Bjorn!

    I’m into the back end!

    I’d tried that at first, but used twenty sixteen, stupidly thinking that since they didn’t have 4.8 installed, I should use the prior version.

    Anyway, thank you for reminding me to do that again, with twenty seventeen, and SINCE I’d identified it as a theme issue.

    Guess this issue is solved. Thanks again — Kristin (Flowergirl)

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)
  • The topic ‘URGENT – How can I reactivate plugins when faced with white screen?’ is closed to new replies.