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How to uninstall Wordfence How to uninstall Wordfence Step 2 A well-developed plugin should have an option in the settings to perform a complete uninstall. Below you can see an example of this in the popular Gravity Forms plugin. One click on the “Uninstall Gravity Forms” button and all the tables and data go away. Uninstall Gravity Forms Uninstall Gravity Forms Here is another example related to the Polylang multilingual plugin. You can see that, in the Tools section, an option to remove all data appears when you use the “Delete” link. You simply need to enable the option before proceeding with the deletion. Remove Polylang plugin data Remove Polylang plugin data If you don't uninstall multilingual plugins properly, they will continue to unnecessarily update translation data for other third-party plugins, even after they have been removed.
Data from old translations in the database Data from old translations in the Country Email List database Oddly enough, Wordfence recommends you install another plugin, Wordfence Assistant , which will help you completely remove plugins, data and settings. As you can see below, once the plugin is installed, you are provided with options to delete Wordfence data and tables, clear all blocked IPs and real-time traffic data. Remove WordFence completely Remove WordFence completely Other WordPress plugins may require an even more complex uninstallation procedure, such as WooCommerce , where you must insert the following code into the wp-config.php file before deleting it, to completely remove all data. define( 'WC_REMOVE_ALL_DATA', true); This is why it is important, before simply deactivating and deleting a plugin, to make sure you do it in the most efficient way.
Here are uninstall shortcut guides for some popular WordPress plugins that some may have trouble with: Uninstall WP Rocket Uninstall WP Super Cache Uninstall UpdraftPlus Uninstall W3 Total Cache Uninstall Comet Cache Remove Unused Shortcodes If you use a plugin that uses shortcodes and you delete or remove them, your site may look really weird until you replace them. If you want to temporarily disable the old plugin's shortcodes, simply use the following code in your functions.php file, updating 'pluginshortcode' with the real plugin's tag. add_shortcode( 'pluginshortcode', '__return_false' ); This will prevent them from appearing. But remember, if you want to use them again with the original plugin, you will have to remove the code. However, this can be a quick way to clean up your site while you replace the shortcodes, perhaps with the latest shortcode format. There will probably be situations where you have already uninstalled a plugin and simply need to do a cleanup.
Data from old translations in the database Data from old translations in the Country Email List database Oddly enough, Wordfence recommends you install another plugin, Wordfence Assistant , which will help you completely remove plugins, data and settings. As you can see below, once the plugin is installed, you are provided with options to delete Wordfence data and tables, clear all blocked IPs and real-time traffic data. Remove WordFence completely Remove WordFence completely Other WordPress plugins may require an even more complex uninstallation procedure, such as WooCommerce , where you must insert the following code into the wp-config.php file before deleting it, to completely remove all data. define( 'WC_REMOVE_ALL_DATA', true); This is why it is important, before simply deactivating and deleting a plugin, to make sure you do it in the most efficient way.
Here are uninstall shortcut guides for some popular WordPress plugins that some may have trouble with: Uninstall WP Rocket Uninstall WP Super Cache Uninstall UpdraftPlus Uninstall W3 Total Cache Uninstall Comet Cache Remove Unused Shortcodes If you use a plugin that uses shortcodes and you delete or remove them, your site may look really weird until you replace them. If you want to temporarily disable the old plugin's shortcodes, simply use the following code in your functions.php file, updating 'pluginshortcode' with the real plugin's tag. add_shortcode( 'pluginshortcode', '__return_false' ); This will prevent them from appearing. But remember, if you want to use them again with the original plugin, you will have to remove the code. However, this can be a quick way to clean up your site while you replace the shortcodes, perhaps with the latest shortcode format. There will probably be situations where you have already uninstalled a plugin and simply need to do a cleanup.