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Deleting plugins from dashboard

Deleting plugins from dashboard

Lawn Dude

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Dec 5, 2012 - 10:54 pm

I managed to duplicate a few plugins when installing them and now want rid of them and I would also like to be rid of others for other reasons, how can I do so, even the ones that have uninstall do not go away when clicked. Many do not have an uninstall button.

thanks

Yellow Swordfish

Glinton, England

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Dec 6, 2012 - 3:22 am

If you have duplicates that do not appear in the list then you will need to use ftp or whatever other tools you would normally use to access your server files.

An SP plugin will normally show an 'uninstall' option if there is actually anything to remove from the database i.e., data associated with the plugin or new columns or database tables. If the plugin has no such data then there is nothing to uninstall. Like standard WordPress plugins, deactivating them effectively removes them from being used.

The forthcoming release - 5.2.0 - does, as it happens - add the option to delete them as well.