WordPress Ideas » Topic: Hook for clean plugin removal https://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/hook-for-clean-plugin-removal WordPress Ideas » Topic: Hook for clean plugin removal en-US Mon, 12 Jun 2017 01:58:20 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1 tdavislaserapp on "Hook for clean plugin removal" https://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/hook-for-clean-plugin-removal#post-6271 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:30:17 +0000 tdavislaserapp 6271@https://wordpress.org/ideas/ Good idea, but in the opinion of some paranoid administrators (of which I am surrounded by in my server environment) granting access for folder deletion to the web server user is like asking them to cut off an arm. And I understand their concern.

If this was part of the core of WP...I may not be able to run in on our server.

]]> Vincent Mimoun-Prat on "Hook for clean plugin removal" https://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/hook-for-clean-plugin-removal#post-6263 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:04:30 +0000 Vincent Mimoun-Prat 6263@https://wordpress.org/ideas/ WP core should provide a hook for plugins to execute when the user wants to delete the plugin.

The plugin administration panel should as well provide a button to delete a plugin's folder and a checkbox that would indicate if the user want to delete all the plugin data from database or just the files.

This would allow plugin developpers to have a standard procedure to delete the plugin tables, options, remove extra columns, ...

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