Missing Plugin!

  • Resolved ShareThis

    (@sharethis)


    7 years ago

    For some reason this plugin is randomly being deleted from our plugin directory. I thought someone was deleting it by accident, but I witnessed the vanishing plugin via ftp and know it wasn’t deleted by human hands. Have you heard anyone else having this issue? Its baffling to me and I’m the plugin developer for ShareThis!

    If you have 0 clue of what I’m talking about then you can close this ticket. Thanks in advance!

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  • Plugin Author Hector Cabrera

    (@hcabrera)

    Hi @sharethis!

    As you know, plugins generally won’t delete themselves without a direct user action.

    Off the top of my head:

    • Your hosting company may have a script in place that automatically deletes blacklisted plugins. If that’s the case, then WPP probably is in this list for some reason. This happened once with a major hosting company, fortunately we were able to work it out together and they removed the plugin from their blacklist shortly afterwards.
    • Your site may have been compromised. A rogue plugin / script might be behind this, althought it would be odd that it’s only targetting WPP. Still, I’d run a security check just in case. Wordfence might be of help in this situation.
    • Gremlings.

    Either way, I think it would be a good idea to check with your hosting company about this (although I doubt they could do anything about the Gremlings if that’s what’s going on).

    Let me know if there’s anything else I could help with.

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