9. Magento. How to temporarily disable Magento extensions from the admin panel

It would be useful when some third-party module has damaged your Magento installation and you need instant removal of its activity.

1. In Magento dashboard navigate to System > Configuration > Advanced > Advanced, select the needed module and deactivate it. The module will be still active. This will shut off the module output only:

   

2. To completely shut the module down and prevent execution of all its code, layouts, setups for both frontend and backend, navigate to app/etc/modules/ directory on your server, open the module control file of the desired module (e.g: to deactivate Google Map module, you will need to edit ‘Tm_GoogleMap.xml’ file):

   

   In order to actually shut the module off, you should change the line:

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   1	<active>true</active>

   to:

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   1	<active>false</active>

3. Save the changes and clear Magento cache.

This is the end of the tutorial. Now you know how to temporaroly disable extensions in your Magento website.

sam

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