How to disable Magento 1 extension

To disable an extension by Mageworx on your website for some reason you need to do the following:

  1. Connect to your server using FTP client
  2. Open the folder app/etc/modules/
  3. Find the appropriate file like MageWorx_Extension.xml where _Extension is a name of the extension and rename it to something like MageWorx_Extension.xml~
  4. Log into Magento Admin Panel.
  5. Flush Magento caches in System -> Cache Management

    Flush Magento Caches

This disables the extension on your website.