Title: Broken site after disabling plugin
Last modified: March 17, 2021

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# Broken site after disabling plugin

 *  Resolved [quinox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quinox/)
 * (@quinox)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-site-after-disabling-plugin/)
 * Hi,
 * I have similar problem as in this thread:
    [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimize-breaking-website-cant-go-back-or-forward/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimize-breaking-website-cant-go-back-or-forward/)
 * After disabling Autoptimize, the site breaks. I only see links. I have enabled
   the 404 fallback.
 * Contacted the hosting compagnie, but no caching is enabled on that site.
 * Please advise.
 * Regards,
    Roland
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fbroken-site-after-disabling-plugin%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-site-after-disabling-plugin/#post-14196312)
 * Had a quick look, no mention of AO in the page source and all looks pretty OK
   to me Ronald?
 * ![](https://i0.wp.com/i.imgur.com/UIwlDMJ.jpg?ssl=1)
 * groeten uit België,
    frank
 *  Thread Starter [quinox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quinox/)
 * (@quinox)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-site-after-disabling-plugin/#post-14196352)
 * Hi FRank,
 * We can speak dutch, but maybe others can’t (and can have the same issue ;-))
 * That’s right, because I have enabled Autoptimize. Disabling gives the problem
   on the product page (not the homepage)
 * Roland
 *  Thread Starter [quinox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quinox/)
 * (@quinox)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-site-after-disabling-plugin/#post-14196369)
 * Inspector generated 404 erros:
 * Can’t find autoptimize_xxxxxxxx.css
 * and
 * Can’t find autoptimize_xxxxxxxx.js
 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-site-after-disabling-plugin/#post-14196406)
 * indeed 🙂
 * so here’s a screenshot of an OK product page and as you can see in the network
   tab there are no Autoptimized CSS/ JS files loaded:
 * ![](https://i0.wp.com/i.imgur.com/e8yYIEj.png?ssl=1)
 * And the HTML source confirms that AO currently is not active:
 * ![](https://i0.wp.com/i.imgur.com/ktNpsjN.png?ssl=1)
 * As:
    * you now activated AO and things are not broken but based on page source
   AO is not active * things broke when AO was not active but the page was still
   trying to load AO’ed resources (the 404 fallback can’t work if AO is not active)
 * The only logical conclusion is there is some page caching in play somehow somewhere
   I’m afraid .. :-/
 *  Thread Starter [quinox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quinox/)
 * (@quinox)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-site-after-disabling-plugin/#post-14197450)
 * Hi Frank,
 * Thanks. The problem wasn’t AO but cache enabler. Even disabled the cache-enabler
   plugin, some setting (db) is still present and affecting the site.
 * Will contact them tomorrow.
 * Thanks.
 * Regards,
    Roland
 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-site-after-disabling-plugin/#post-14197650)
 * Maybe try remove the Cache Enabler lines in wp-config.php?
 *  Thread Starter [quinox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quinox/)
 * (@quinox)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-site-after-disabling-plugin/#post-14199273)
 * Did that…no joy 🙁

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