Disable specified WordPress plugins in your development environment. Useful for plugins that either make network calls you don't want when working (eg, auto-posting to Facebook), or for plugins that rely on services only available in production (eg, Varnish).

disable-plugins-in-development.php

<?php
/**
 * Disable specified plugins in your development environment.
 *
 * This is a "Must-Use" plugin. Code here is loaded automatically before
 * regular plugins load. This is the only place from which regular plugins
 * can be disabled programatically.
 *
 * Place this code in a file in WP_CONTENT_DIR/mu-plugins or specify a
 * custom location by setting the WPMU_PLUGIN_URL and WPMU_PLUGIN_DIR
 * constants in wp-config.php.
 *
 * This code depends on a server environment variable of WP_ENV, which I set
 * to "development" or "production" in each particular server/environment.
 *
 * this plugin also redirect home and site url
 */

function dev_home() {
    $url = 'https://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
    return $url;
}

function dev_siteurl() {
    $url = 'https://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']  . '/subfolder';
    return $url;
}

// fixes the plugins_url
function dev_plugins_uri( $full_url, $path=NULL, $plugin=NULL ) {
    return get_option( 'siteurl' ) . substr( $full_url, stripos( $full_url, PLUGINDIR ) - 1 );
}

if (!empty($_SERVER['WP_ENV']) && $_SERVER['WP_ENV'] == 'development') {
    add_filter('pre_option_home', 'dev_home');
    add_filter('pre_option_siteurl', 'dev_siteurl');
    add_filter('plugins_url', 'dev_plugins_uri');

    $plugins = array(
        'w3-total-cache/w3-total-cache.php',
        // 'varnish-http-purge/varnish-http-purge.php',
    );
    require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/plugin.php');
    deactivate_plugins($plugins);
}