Suggestion to improve one section of Codex

  • I have a suggestion to improve a section of a page of the Codex. This will be easiest to understand if I explain where I went, and what I did, step by step.

    The posts on my home page suddenly started showing up in the wrong order. (Normally they appear most recent at the top.) I read the following page in the support forum: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/posts-in-wrong-order-1

    This page started with someone having the same symptom I did. A helpful contributor suggested he try resetting the plugins, and provided a link to the following Codex page: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F

    I followed these instructions, provided on that page of the Codex:

    Or reset your plugins folder via FTP or the file manager provided in your host’s control panel. This method preserves plugin options but requires plugins be manually reactivated.

    Via FTP or your host’s file manager, navigate to the wp-contents folder (directory)
    Via FTP or your host’s file manager, rename the folder “plugins” to “plugins.hold”
    Login to your WordPress administration plugins page (/wp-admin/plugins.php) – this will disable any plugin that is “missing”.
    Via FTP or your host’s file manager, rename “plugins.hold” back to “plugins”

    I should have been smart enough to figure out that I should take some screenshots to keep track of which plugins on the site were active and which were inactive before I started. I do acknowledge that! I collaborate on the site with several other people, and there were a bunch of inactive plugins collecting dust in this site. So I ended up with a bit of a mess — not completely sure if I re-activated the exactly correct list of plugins.

    There may be other people out there who will make the same mistake I did. I suggest that this section of the Codex include the suggestion that before doing the reset, one should record which plugins are active and which are inactive.

    The good news is that the posts are now appearing in the correct order.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    I understand what you mean, but as the title of the section states (“How to deactivate all plugins when not able to access the administrative menus?”) we generally only ever direct someone to that article when they have absolutely no access to the Plugins section of their Dashboard, and therefore would be unable to take a screenshot in the first place.

    If you do have access to the Plugins section of your Dashboard, we don’t really have any documentation for that, as the procedure would simply involve deactivating the plugins from there as normal.

    Thanks for proposing an improvement though! ??

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