How to Uninstall – Works A Bit Too Well

  • Resolved ez123abc

    (@ez123abc)


    10 years, 3 months ago

    I like the plugin…it works wonderful…

    It did remove all the block javascript and css above the fold…

    I looked at the section, (How to Exclude Files) because I have a slider in there that was not showing up after I installed the plugin.

    I read the section with Justin Tadlock and tried to do what you had suggested, but there was a slider that I could not find in the enqueue to deregister it, and then run it again.

    I deactived the plugin, deleted it, so that I could find it, but the site remained the same.

    I mean, I figured I would see all the scripts again and get all those errors again, but I don’t see them. I wanted to see them to get to the file I was looking for.

    So right now, the site is running without the slider. Even after uninstalling the plugin, the results remain the same. I looked for the plugin (script to footer) to edit it, but I could not find it in my installation, still the site remains with the render blocking…

    I just wanted to get to the other blocking files to deresgiter some and start them again like in your (how to exclue files) section..

    This is a great plugin, but how do I undo it for a little while?

    http://wordpress.org/plugins/scripts-to-footerphp/

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  • Plugin Author Joshua David Nelson

    (@joshuadnelson)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Once you deactivate the plugin it won’t have any influence, especially if you delete it – the code that does its action won’t exist. Unfortunately, I don’t know how your slider is set up, but if there are conflicting scripts or scripts that must be sequenced in a specific order (say one in the header and another in the body) then this plugin may not be the right choice. It takes a broad stroke approach and moves all enqueued scripts to the footer.

    That said, again, if you deactivate and/or delete it and your still having issues then it is likely another plugin or theme function causing it.

    Did you add or subtract code from your theme or plugin files to modify the slider while you were trying to work on a fix?

    Thread Starter ez123abc

    (@ez123abc)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    I am not sure about the adding and subtracting code that you mention…

    I had two working sites, on subdomains, practice accounts, and after i deleted the plugin, everything remained the same…

    For instance, the solostream slider, it does not show, the genesis responsive slider does not show…

    Lizatom colums do not show…

    Well, lizatom shortcodes do appear, but in single files now in columns as it was..

    And yeah, after I deactivated and removed the plugin…

    It did make my site faster let met tell you, it even removed the css blocks before the fold, which was good, but some things I do need, and wanted to add them back, but it just was not working, so I decided to remove it and backtrack to no avail..

    Plugin Author Joshua David Nelson

    (@joshuadnelson)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Yea, I don’t know what would be going on – but this plugin uses hooks (add_action and remove_action) as the basis for it’s code – take a look at the file, it’s very small and simple. If the plugin is deactivated and the file is deleted then the function is not added to the hook and it can’t be run.

    I’ve deactivated and deleted this plugin multiple times on numerous sites, included ones with the genesis slider – once it’s gone, it no longer effects the site. Something else must be going on…

    Thread Starter ez123abc

    (@ez123abc)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Yes, I know, the plugin is small, and it works great….I do like what it did for the site…

    It’s when I was trying to find the others, that I deactivated it and uninstalled it to find the others to add action and stuff according to the support on how to exclude files…

    After I uninstalled, everything remained the same…

    I installed it again, and removed the code, and left just the text, and it still runs the same…

    I will look and go one by one, removing plugins to see what is going on…and see if I can find the culprit…

    As I mentioned, it’s the same with solostream and genesis themes…

    Thread Starter ez123abc

    (@ez123abc)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    I will keep you posted…your plugin is a good one, I don’t deny that one…

    Plugin Author Joshua David Nelson

    (@joshuadnelson)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Okay, let me know what you find out – I certainly want to avoid bugs and help!

    Thread Starter ez123abc

    (@ez123abc)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    I will…

    Thanks again Joshua 🙂

    Thread Starter ez123abc

    (@ez123abc)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    This is what I found out, or think might had happened….

    Your plugin works great, and it does remove everything from the head to the footer…

    I backed up a copy of my site, on the subdomain to work on it, and what I did was load up your plugin, and it does what it says, I checked and defer parsing of javascript was gone…

    I did notice that the blocking css resources now…I don’t have that on my broken site…on my borken site, i have 2 blocking css resourse, where on the subdomain I had 50.

    I loaded the plugin (wp clean up) and I guess when ran the first time to clean, it works. After any changes and run (wp clean up) again, and check the site, the 50 blocking css resources turns to 2, but that’s when even after deactiving your plugin, nothing happens…it’s like you still have it installed.

    After running the plugin again, it takes away from other widgets as well, like the colums, turns to a single column and what not.

    The site gets faster, but it’s not the same as it was before…

    So yeah, the plugin I found that was causing the problem was (wp clean up)

    So I will restore the subdomain again, and start from there, and go to deregistering the script and redoing it after your plugin is done…

    Plugin Author Joshua David Nelson

    (@joshuadnelson)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    I’m not sure I follow completely – was it wp clean up causing the error or a conflict with my plugin and wp clean up? Were you able to get my plugin to work or did you have to go with a different solution?

    Thanks,
    Joshua

    Thread Starter ez123abc

    (@ez123abc)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    When I installed your plugin, I was able to activate, and deactivate no problem…

    The way I see it, there was no problem with your plugin Joshua….

    Now I am not sure if there was a conflict with wp clean up…but I have to retry it again…and just run it once…and see if it happens again…

    And see if there is an issue with your plugin with wp clean up…

    But your plugin works just as you describe…when I activate it,and it goes away when I deactivate…

    I am thinking that perhaps, running wp clean up the first time is enough, but not sure if it would cause problems later on, but it was not your plugin that was causing the issues….

    Carlos

    Plugin Author Joshua David Nelson

    (@joshuadnelson)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Carlos,

    Glad you were able to figure it out, thanks for keeping me in the loop! I’m marking this as resolved, but let me know if there are any other issues.

    Cheers,
    Joshua

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