[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #25137: Enable safe mode to run WordPress without loading plugins

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#25137: Enable safe mode to run WordPress without loading plugins
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 Reporter:  knutsp              |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal              |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Plugins             |     Version:  3.6
 Severity:  normal              |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  dev-feedback close  |
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Changes (by nacin):

 * keywords:  dev-feedback => dev-feedback close


Comment:

 Moving the `plugins` directory immediately prevents plugins from loading,
 but doesn't deactivate them. Going to plugins.php will deactivate them.
 But, the plugins page remembers "Recently Activated" (but deactivated)
 plugins.

 I'm not sure there is anything for us to do here. It's probably just as
 easy, if not easier, for a user to disable plugins via a directory move,
 than it would to edit wp-config.php. One requires just a simple web-based
 server file browser (or FTP client), the other requires a more complicated
 file edit. Safe mode also doesn't help the issue that once you've disabled
 all plugins, you need to test (ideally one by one) to see which plugin is
 causing the problem. Safe mode only allows for all-on or all-off, unless
 you let them deactivate a plugin while in safe mode, then they can remove
 safe mode again. But then there is the issue of the default theme, and
 whether you switch that back to, and whether a "safe mode" could actually
 cause data problems.

 There are some cool ideas here but it's pretty clear none of them are good
 for core.

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