How to remove plugins on erroneous installation?
The post explains how I uninstalled the plugin with bug that made whole of my blog unusual. This is the manual process of plugin removal.
It’s funny. Really funny!
I do not install plugins in my blog without checking the details; without knowing whether it is compatible to the recent version of WordPress I’m using or not.
I was setting up my new blog, and you know how tedious is the task to do everything. Install WordPress, Theme, Plugins, Widgets and customize all those configurations! Uff! It’s a lot of tasks.
If everything goes right, you are lucky and will smile at the end of day. What if your blog shows error after you click Install for a plugin?
This happened when I was installing Social Karma 1.0 on my WordPress 3.1.1. I was even more frustrated to know the whole of my blog was down. Even the homepage displays the same error message. Look at the address bar!
Now I can’t go to WordPress backend to disable that plugin and uninstall it from there.
I had not installed that plugin without checking properly. Look at there – the compatibility up to WordPress 3.1.1
But this happens! Don’t get scared – this is normal phenomenon.
How to uninstall plugins manually?
On my previous tutorial when I was talking about Installing Plugins Manually and Automatically, Alex from Jocuri asked if we need to know manual process too?
Now my blog is locked. I can’t navigate front end. I can’t log on into dashboard. I don’t have any other way out to remove that faulty plugin and bring my site back to live again.
The solution is not as scary as the manifestation. If you are completely unaware of the WordPress file system and its way of registering themes, plugins and widgets, you’ll guess it must be tough task to troubleshoot. But the reality is just opposite!
Follow the procedure below:
Step 1.
Logon to your site through FTP. You can use any FTP client. My favorite is FileZilla. Even your host provides some sort of file manager to copy, move, delete and so on.
Step 2.
Navigate up to /public_html/ <hosted_folder> /wp-content/plugins
Every plugin installed are stored in plugins folder of wp-content folder inside your blog folder. A new folder is created every time you install a new plugin and removed the corresponding folder when you uninstall a plugin.
Step 3.
Find the folder of faulty plugin – in my case it is Social Karma 01. Delete that folder.
Step 4.
If you have done everything correctly, the plugin is gone. Log on to your WordPress Backend. The plugin is deactivated and there is nothing to worry about!
So, we’ve learned how to install plugins manually and also remove them manually if they are faulty.
Happy Blogging!
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17 April 2011 at 12:54 am Permalink
Hmm nice post but you know what suresh, i really don’t know anything even the A of SEO abcd….i am looking forward for some basic SEO article that will get to learn me everything about SEO……..
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Hello Suresh,
You pretty much answered that question with this post. But with this method you can bog your database with a lot of extra tables and data. I know that most of the plugins create new tables and insert data into them and if you don’t uninstall them from the wp admin panel you will end up with a lot of useless tables that might slow your db.
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18 April 2011 at 7:09 am Permalink
That is pretty true Alex, but at that moment I was much worried about bringing my blog live again. I can think about the tables and databases to clean now. A very good reminder. Thank you for this.
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18 April 2011 at 7:31 am Permalink
I once encountered the same problem the error when i was editing index.php file . WordPress should provide a new algo that it shouldnt save the file if incase the error is detected – in realtime so that lots of tedious hard work can be wasted
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18 April 2011 at 4:33 pm Permalink
Sometimes it can be so horrible. Thank you Ajinkya for the comment.
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20 April 2011 at 8:54 am Permalink
Nice tutorial Suresh! Amazing how much you can get done straight from you cpanel via FTP. Nothing more frustrating for people than coming up against issues such as these and not knowing how fix it. You made it seem very simple.
Great job!
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20 April 2011 at 2:21 pm Permalink
Thank you Michele for the comment.
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20 April 2011 at 8:55 am Permalink
OH P.S. I love your background!
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20 April 2011 at 2:36 pm Permalink
Thank you.
BTW, do you know your commentLuv links are pointing to feedproxy.google.com. Its not that problem, they use 301 redirection and not much loss, but why won’t you like to show your own link?
Please check http://seommotips.com/blogging-tips/commentluv-enabled-feedburner/ to fix if you wish.
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20 April 2011 at 5:45 pm Permalink
Hmmm…. I noticed that before and not only with my links. I upgraded the commentluv plugin about a week ago. Wondering if that has something to do with it. Going have to look into that. Thanks for the reminder.
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Thanks Suresh you are providing a complete guide line for the wordspress. I am new in wordpress and wants the detail of all wordpress plug-ins.
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9 June 2011 at 10:11 pm Permalink
Thank you for your great tutorial which helped me with my recent issue when my whole website crashed because of a database corruption and the server administrator had to recover my site from a server backup. This was great but then when I tried to view my blog it came up with a similar error as the one you pointed above.
@Alex great point to remember and I will definitely clean my database table
Well done guys.
Kind regards
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10 June 2011 at 3:54 pm Permalink
That’s great Manuel, you got everything fixed, I’m glad.
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10 June 2011 at 4:17 pm Permalink
Yes Suresh Khanal your blog helped me a lot. After I got my blog up and running I did some database cleaning
It is always great to get help from the internet.
Kind regards
Manuel
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No problem Manuel, I am glad someone found my tip useful!
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I downloaded or did something that messes up my upload of my blog and post pages. The content is setup correctly with centering and spacing between sentences, but when I upload any page or blog the centering and sentence separation has disappeared.
I possibly downloaded a plugin that may have caused this.but don’t know which one.
I am trying to eliminate the latest ones by date of install but don’t know where to find them.
Or can you think of any possible cause for this?
This kind of issue always arise in WordPress blogs. Nice tips!
BTW you commentluv plugin is not working
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19 October 2011 at 7:25 am Permalink
Ow, again? No, its working normal here. It must have been a temporary problem.
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20 October 2011 at 12:38 pm Permalink
WordPress can sometimes make you go crazy. Once i got into similar issue i was unable to logged in into dashboard through PC, but after many attempts i tried through mobile and deleted the plugin. Don’t know how or why it happened but just tried my luck
I had an issue with a plugin that was working fine for months, then suddenly boom. I couldn’t login to the dashboard. Thank you so much for posting this resolution. I’m not a technical person and was at a loss. You saved me and my blog!!!!
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21 October 2011 at 7:02 am Permalink
I had to remove WordPress SEO as it returned 505 for the backend of my blog. On the next update it was fine.
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9 January 2012 at 1:54 am Permalink
Nice tips! exactly what I wanted, am having the same problem here, I cant just login to my dashboard anymore.
i have gone through this error many times there are most of the plugins that contain bugs and once they are install or activated they crush your blog and that is the most irritating thing for me that really gets on my nerves i am really thankful to you mate that you have shared these awesome tips that would now help me to sort out this problem or else for such things i have to appoint a wordpress developer to sort it out, Really Thanks Dude!
Twitter: EvitaAndrianni
12 March 2012 at 4:17 am Permalink
Thank you so much Suresh. That was quick and painless.My site was down only few minutes.Your article was exactly what I needed.Thanks again.Cheers.
Thank you so much for this… I’m so green about all these thing but I’m learning very fast, thanks to great info like this. People really need to know this information if going to run their own website/blog on WordPress. I’ve had two plugin play up on my website already and it’s only a 3 weeks old. I was so stressed the first time this happened and could not find good clear information about how to fix it but I was lucky enough that my web host helped me the first time but not so lucky the second time. Anyhow after reading this I was able to do it myself! Your post is the best!!!!!
hi dude…thanks a lotfor this usefull articvel , good share