Uninstalling Conundrum Part 2

Posted by admin in Wordpress Plugins, ... | 01.13.2008 - 1:40 am

First off, I want to thank each and every one of you who put your thinking caps on and came up with some awesome ideas and solutions for this perplexing problem. I think its time to consolidate the ideas that we came up with, and review what the underlying problems are.
Nick was first out of the gate
For both of my plugins, I provided uninstall capability. Whenever the user deactivates the plugin, it is effectively uninstalled, removing all data related to the plugin. The user could then do whatever they wanted with the file containing the plugin.
It was easy to do it this way because WordPress provides a hook for action upon deactivation of a plugin.

The problem that I and many others have is that, deactivating a plugin should not have the same affect as uninstalling it. This is wrong. Who wants to reconfigure their plugin after deactivating it, when all […]

Original post by Jeffro2pt0

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