Plugin Toggle

For those times when you’re too lazy to visit the Plugins screen to toggle a plugin on or off.

It’s also helpful when troubleshooting:

This simple plugin is awesome, especially when it comes to diagnosing problems. One of the tenants of troubleshooting WordPress is to disable every plugin and re-enable them one by one in a process of elimination.

Generally, this is accomplished by having the plugin management page in one browser tab with the front end of the website in another. When a plugin is deactivated, switch browser tabs and refresh to see if the problem disappears. Depending on the speed of your site and the number of plugins installed, this can be a cumbersome experience.

— Jeff Chandler, WP Tavern

Additional Resources

• Write a review
• Contribute on GitHub
• Follow @cedaroco
• Visit Cedaro

Install Plugin Toggle like any other plugin. Check out the codex if you have any questions.

1. 

   Toolbar dropdown listing plugins to toggle.

1.3.1 – December 27, 2016

• Listed plugins vertically in columns to make scanning easier and decrease disruption when adding or removing plugins.
• Attempt to detect scenarios where the admin screen being viewed is unavailable after deactivating a plugin and redirect to the Manage Plugins screen instead.

1.3.0 – December 1, 2016

• Transferred to Cedaro.
• Removed the call to load_plugin_textdomain() in favor of just-in-time text domain loading available sine WordPress 4.6.
• Updated URLs to https where possible.

1.2.0

• Internationalize the plugin to add support for language packs.
• Only load JavaScript and CSS files on the frontend when the toolbar is enabled.

1.1.6

• Increase the opacity of inactive plugins and bold active plugins to improve legibility.

1.1.5

• Set up the plugin on init instead of plugins_loaded to prevent issues with calling current_user_can() too early.

1.1.4

• Check for changes to the plugins directory or list of active plugins to determine if the cached plugins list should be refreshed.

1.1.3

• Display an error on the plugins screen if there’s an issue during (de)activation.

1.1.2

• URL encode redirect URLs to prevent query string conflicts.

1.1.1

• Prevent a fatal error on activation due to stomping a variable passed by reference.

1.1.0

• Refactored the codebase to improve performance and legibility.

1.0.0

• Initial release.