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How Do I Disable WooCommerce in WordPress?

Last updated on October 1, 2022 @ 5:24 am

WooCommerce is a popular eCommerce plugin for WordPress. If you’re not using WooCommerce on your WordPress site, you may want to disable it to improve your site’s performance. In this article, we’ll show you how to disable WooCommerce in WordPress.

Method 1: Disable WooCommerce via the Plugin Page

The easiest way to disable WooCommerce is by going to the Plugins page in your WordPress dashboard and deactivating the plugin. Once you deactivate the plugin, WooCommerce will no longer be active on your site.

All of your WooCommerce data will still be stored in your database, so you can reactivate the plugin if you change your mind later.

Method 2: Disable WooCommerce via FTP

If you can’t access your WordPress dashboard or if you want to completely remove WooCommerce from your site, you can disable the plugin by connecting to your website via FTP and deleting the plugin files.

To do this, connect to your website using an FTP client and go to the /wp-content/plugins/ folder. Find the WooCommerce folder and delete it. This will completely remove WooCommerce from your WordPress site.

Conclusion:

In this article, we showed you two methods for disabling WooCommerce in WordPress. If you’re not using WooCommerce on your site, we recommend disabling it to improve your site’s performance.

Dale Leydon

Dale Leydon

Sysadmin turned Javascript developer. Owner of 20+ apps graveyard, and a couple of successful ones.