Salesforce: Deactivate Apex Trigger in Production

There are two options to do this:

Option #1:

1. Login to your sandbox instance
2. Uncheck the active checkbox field
3. Create an Outbound changeset, deploy it into production

This method can be time consuming since the changeset could take a while before it reaches your production instance.

Option #2:

This option requires you to install the Force.com IDE. Force.com IDE allows you to access most of the meta-data in Salesforce including your Apex code. For example, You can find the Apex Trigger metadata (createOpp.trigger-meta.xml) and change the status to inactive. Once you sync the change in your production, this Apex Trigger will be deactivated.