Hi Guys, I just moved my websites from justhost shared hosting to another VPS provider. Now, the websites are just working well but i have a problem with the installed plug-ins. I can not delete them from admin panel, and also can not delete the folders via FTP (I use filezilla) and also can not change their CHMOD permissions. If i install new plug-ins, there is no problem, i can delete, edit, change CHMOD etc. But i can not do anything with the earlier installed plugins. First, i thought, there should be something wrong with my VPS provider but then i could just change the permission / edit/ delete all other files/folders but the wp plug-ins. Any suggestions with that? how to get rid of them and install them new? thanks for your help!
As long as the plugin is active you can't delete it.. what you can try is using Phpmyadmin, deactive the plugin then log to your admin dashboard and Delete it. Please backup your database first before doing this : Log in your Cpanel, open phpmyadmin and open your database. Look on your left, open Wp_options Scroll down and under Option Name look for active_plugins and Click on EDIT on the left. Look for the Plugin(s) you need to Delete, it will look something like : i:3;s:17:”cforms/cforms.php”; In this line it's for the plugin Cforms.. every plugin start with i:Number;....."; Once you found the Plugin line.. Delete it... and Update the Table... Log in to your Wordpress Dashboard ==> Plugins and now you can Delete the Plugin... Goodluck
thanks for your reply! I will check it today. Just to be sure, what do you mean with with the sentence above? i mean, i am also not able to do anythign with the plugins which are already deactivated. i mean Like i have 5 plugins, i was using 3 of them which were active and 2 were deactive. are these same "active" that we are talking about? thanks!
i just mean that in wordpress in general, as long as the plugin is active or in Database, you can't Delete it... that's all. Just follow this steps and you will be fine but as i said, backup your database first.... Regards
Ok, thank you for your help. as for today, I received an email from my vps provider and they told me that "because we took the backup with root permissions, therefore we configured it only with root permissions, now we configured all permissions for users too" (I mean there was a problem with permissions and now everything is ok.