I activated the plugin with a snippet and my sites broke down

Thought id give you a temp work around as ive got stuck like this a few times

Just re-name the plugin folder via FTP or cPanel access to something like

##code-snippets

Thank you so much for fast respond!
My problem is: I can’t find the code snippet plugin folder. It is not there under wp-content -> plugins. Don’t know why. Other I can see.

that is weird, have you tried re-uploading the code-snippets plugin folder?

Did notice that in the define(‘CODE_SNIPPETS_SAFE_MODE’, true); you used there are the wrong types of ‘ in the code wrapping the CODE_SNIPPETS_SAFE_MODE

these ones are correct define('CODE_SNIPPETS_SAFE_MODE', true);

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by segmant.

Ok, thank you again!

I re-uploaded the plugin folder and renamed it to #code-snippets.

In my wp-config.php I’ve typed yesterday
the right code with the right punctuations mark. I’ve checked that even right now.
But it doesn’t work. Still blank dead white site.
Do you have any idea?
Kings regards!

Sorry, I mean ##code-snippets

I looked at the error console and your site isn’t loading anything at all you have a Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error)
and if i view the source code all theres a <a href=" printed, thats it.

I think what you need to do is start deactivating your plugins one by one, just by adding the # to the plugin folders through FTP to see if that makes a difference.

Please take a look at this https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-white-screen-of-death/

Do you have backups?

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by segmant.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by segmant.

Ok, I understand and I will read the instructions. Let me try.
Yes, I have a backup but I can’t get it. It’s a backup of my server but only my provider has the control. Now my provider has holidays because of Christmas.
That’s all a big sh.. ??

If your site isn’t loading and the code snippets plugin doesn’t seem to be installed, it’s quite likely that the error is originating elsewhere. I’d recommend checking your other plugins and your active theme to see if they are causing the error.

Thank you! I will do that and I will follow the instructions of Segmant with ftp. Hope it helps.

Best regards!

Ok, here I’m back again.
I’ve followed the instructions of @ Segmant and I’ve done it very thoroughly point by point. But it did not help, unfortunately.

I think that it seems your going to have to re-install one of your backups, I cant see that its the fault of the code snippets plugin as there is nothing loading at all if you look in the console error on your site.

Its highly unusual that if you’ve gone though the steps mentioned earlier to recover the site that its still the same.

Have you tried to connect to your database and check that?

If you have WP-CLI and need to easily temp deactivate the Code Snippets plugin you can run the following command wp plugin deactivate code-snippets

@muttifragt62: If you are receiving a blank white screen of a 500 error, it usually means that there has been a PHP error, but the error message is not displayed. If you are able to turn on PHP error reporting and let me know what the message is, I might be able to work out how to solve this.

You can turn on error reporting by setting the WP_DEBUG constant to true in your wp-config.php file. This usually means finding the line that looks like this:

define('WP_DEBUG', false);

and changing it to this:

define('WP_DEBUG', true);