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Re: Fun with Uninstallation

Kevin — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:05:01 -0000

Great idea. I am suprised wordpress has not done this themself. Glad i found your site i will be checking out your other posts for more things i can use.

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

Craig — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:47:27 -0000

What a great idea - this has been an issue - now if we could just implement some standards among the plug-ins.

Keep to the good work!

< Craig

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

seobinh — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:20:40 -0000

I've been desperate for a a core feature of wordpress to uninstall plugins.

It's so annoying for the plugins to leave some junk in the database after they are deactivated / deleted.

Thank you very much for making this plugin and if possible please make it into the core.

Regards,
Binh Nguyen

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

Andrew Rickmann — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:53:39 -0000

I think that is a great idea Keith, I would like to see the WPF as part of the core.

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

Keith — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:51:32 -0000

Andrew - I definitely agree with you that the uninstall feature should be integrated into the core of Wordpress just as the activate / deactivate feature currently is. I also feel that this should be taken a step further and that a standardized plugin framework like the WPF should be integrated as well to help minimize the difficulty in developing, administering and configuring plugins.

I have placed a request in the Wordpress Trac system to have the WPF (or something like the WPF) integrated into the Wordpress core.

http://trac.wordpress.org/t...

It may be of benefit to you to create a request for a basic uninstall feature as well.

Keep up the good work!

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

Matej Nastran — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:52:16 -0000

Great thing! Yes, Wordpress would absolutely have to have a plugin uninstall function!

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

Mike — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:49:33 -0000

Fantastic idea. I was talking to Jeffro (who first pointed this out to me) not long ago.

It's a great feature to have. Keep up the good work!

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

Andrew Rickmann — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:11:02 -0000

Thanks Keith,

I think it is certainly an option, the only viable option at the moment, for developers to produce their own uninstall options and the WPF could be a massive help with that.

I think the best all round option is for the core to have an uninstall option as part of the plugins page that requires as little developer input as possible to operate.

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

David Lancelot SjÃ¶vall — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:11:58 -0000

Great initiative! I hope that we will se more uninstallation-plugins for WP in the future. Be proud that u made the first step creating one wp-uninstall-plugin!

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

Keith — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:57:52 -0000

Andrew - The Wordpress Plugin Framework (WPF) that I developed allows for differentiating between deactivation and uninstallation of a plugin that has been developed using the WPF. I have provided a link to the latest version of the WPF below.

http://www.doubleblackdesig...

Basically, the WPF provides a "Deactivate Plugin" button to simply deactivate the specified plugin as well as an "Uninstall Plugin" button that removes the database entries associated with the plugin and deactivates the plugin.

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

Bruce -- Harper Blue — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:19:48 -0000

A good idea, whose time has long been here.

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

Andrew Rickmann — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:49:05 -0000

Rob,

I did consider that option but I wanted it to be available when the plugin wasn't enabled.

I think there are reasons why you might disable something and then after a period decide not to use it and it may be best not to have to activate it in order to uninstall it.

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

Pande — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:39:29 -0000

Great Idea!

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bdtmz — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:37:15 -0000

hello
a note of appreciation. we did want this, I always had to go through the database, real awsome work..

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

Rob Marsh — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:36:09 -0000

A solution that I would prefer is to use the usual deactivation hook but have the plugin admin page have a check box or a separate button so that a flag is set which the deactivation routine can use to decide whether to leave stuff intact or wipe the slate clean.

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

Andrew Rickmann — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:27:24 -0000

Paul,

I have submitted this on the WordPress trac because I do think it is something that should be part of the core. One of the reasons why I am hesitant about releasing it is that there are other solutions that might be preferable.

The comments I have had are great but don't really engage with the method of achieving the uninstall which means that although we now have an example of one method of achieving it we aren't actually any closer to deciding that this is the way forward, i.e. that including a separate document. This is one issue that has already been raised on the trac, that it might be better to find a way of including the uninstall functions in the same plugin file.

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

Alex :: Web Design — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:26:59 -0000

This is definitely a step in the right direction, but what about the plugins that don't have a separate uninstall file?

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

Paul — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:01:29 -0000

Great idea - I've been following the discussion over at WLTC too and was very pleased to see someone doing something.

I agree this should be a core feature. But someone has to take a first step and you're the one, it seems.

I'm not a WP developer, but maybe you could submit this idea to the folks who work with the core of WP?

I'm sure something of the sort will eventually have to become part of WP.
But untill it's part of the core, there's nothing stopping you from making this plugin (once it's finished) available to developers and users. And maybe developers could make their future plugins "uninstall compatible" or something like that.

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

Mads Christian Jensen — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:43:27 -0000

best plugin ever!

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Norbert Beckers — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:21:21 -0000

Thumbs up! I agree that this should be a feature of WP itself. implementation of this could be beneficial for a plugin like "TinyMCE Advanced" which now asks if you want to delete the toolbar presets you mode when you temporarily deactivate this plugin. This could be shifted to the uninstall feature.

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

tabrez — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:44:49 -0000

I too would vote for all the plugin authors forming a standard way to support plugin uninstallation and get as many wordpress plugins as possible compatible with Andrew's tool.

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

Kjetil Flekkoy - Italy — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:03:58 -0000

Would just say thanks.
Always good to be able to keep the system clean.
Kjetil

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

burningHat — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:21:21 -0000

Oh great! I was looking for a plugin like this for a long time!

Thanks!

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

Andrew Rickmann — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:07:10 -0000

BillH,

That's a good idea and I will look at that.

Re: Fun with Uninstallation

George — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:45:38 -0000

I been looking for something like this now only if this was in the core file and not have to require plugin developer to write their code with this in mind.