Leaving a mess when uninstalling

  • Resolved MNX

    (@mononox)


    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hi there,

    Just wanted to mention something general, so not really a support topic. When offering WP plugins, it’s good form to remove everything your plugin has added during the uninstall process OR at least notify the user of leftover traces. I had to go in and manually remove a your MU plugin and some stuff in the uploads folder by hand on too many sites. Wish I had known before, this was no fun.

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  • Plugin Author Rene Hermenau

    (@renehermi)

    Thank you @mononox

    I am going to make sure that this will happen in the future.

    Thank you for the head up.

    Ohh, so we wait for the next update befor we install the plugin. Rene it is realistic that it is included in the next update?

    Plugin Author Rene Hermenau

    (@renehermi)

    @nick7766 The current leftovers, when WP Staging is uninstalled, are only a few text log files in the folder wp-content/uploads/wp-staging

    I would not call this a mess and it’s is definitely not as bad as it sounds by the wording of the issue starter.

    This will be resolved soon but probably not in the next version.

    @mononox
    I wonder that the mu-plugin is not uninstalled on your system. We have an uninstallation routine for this and it works flawlessly on all my dev and production systems when I delete wp staging via the WordPress uninstall function.

    I’ve checked it again a moment ago. Could you please do the same and can confirm the issue, please?

    Thread Starter MNX

    (@mononox)

    Yes it really is that bad. I can barely imagine much worse than an orphaned MU plugin, security wise and by any other standard I know of..

    It happend on well over 50 websites across different hosts worldwide and I had to go in and remove it all by hand so yes it was a freaking mess.

    Fix it or don’t, I don’t care as I wont use it again.

    @renehermi thnx Rene for your explanation. So I am happy for asking…

    best regards & nice WE

    Plugin Author Rene Hermenau

    (@renehermi)

    @mononox

    > It happend on well over 50 websites across different hosts worldwide and I had to go in and remove it all by hand so yes it was a freaking mess.

    How did you disable and uninstall wp staging on these 50 websites?

    I assume you did not do it manually rather than using an external service like manageWP or similar?

    If you let me know what technology stack you used for deleting wp staging on your websites I can try to reproduce it on my development system.

    If you go the regular way to Plugins > WP Staging, disabling and uninstalling wp staging from there will remove its mu-plugin as well. So I am sorry but at the moment, I can not reproduce your issue.

    Thanks for helping me to fix this.

    Btw. If there is someone else with the same issue, please let me know here.

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by Rene Hermenau.

    > Btw. If there is someone else with the same issue, please let me know here.

    yip, i listed everything left behind two months ago, in ‘Remove Data on Uninstall’ does not remove all data.

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