Can I safely deactivate the plugin without my site reverting to http?

  • Resolved cag8f

    (@cag8f)


    5 years, 5 months ago

    Hello. My site already has a valid SSL certificate and is fully migrated to HTTPS. Somehow though, I recently discovered that your plugin had been installed and activated. I should perhaps note that at the top of my admin pages, there is a message from your plugin, with a blue button reading, “Go ahead, activate SSL!” screenshot

    Neither myself nor the other person with admin access seem to recall installing the plugin. I would like to safely deactivate and remove your plugin. But of course, the deactivate link next to your plugin has the text, “Deactivate (revert to http)” which concerns me (screenshot). I of course do not want to revert to http. Will clicking this link revert my site to http? If so, how can I properly deactivate and remove your plugin, without altering my current http settings.

    Just to be clear, my site was already fully migrated to http before installing your plugin.

    Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author Rogier Lankhorst

    (@rogierlankhorst)

    5 years, 5 months ago

    You can use the option in settings/ssl/settings “deactivate, but keep https”. For more information see the article on the website:
    https://really-simple-ssl.com/knowledge-base/can-deactivate-really-simple-ssl-activating-ssl/

    Plugin Author Rogier Lankhorst

    (@rogierlankhorst)

    5 years, 5 months ago

    Alternatively, you can also just delete the plugin using FTP.

    Thread Starter cag8f

    (@cag8f)

    5 years, 5 months ago

    OK thanks for that. But just to be clear, if I have a site that has already been fully migrated to HTTPS, then install/activate your plugin, then immediately try to deactivate/uninstall plugin, your plugin will revert the site to HTTP, unless I take extra steps (or delete the plugin via FTP)?

    Plugin Author Rogier Lankhorst

    (@rogierlankhorst)

    5 years, 5 months ago

    No extra steps are needed, just use the “deactivate but keep https” button, or remove/rename the plugin folder through FTP.

    The default deactivate plugin link in the wordpress plugins overview will indeed revert the site to http.

    Thread Starter cag8f

    (@cag8f)

    5 years, 5 months ago

    OK I really appreciate your help. I will attempt to remove the plugin via FTP.

    >> No extra steps are needed, just use the “deactivate but keep https” button, or remove/rename the plugin folder through FTP.

    Maybe these aren’t ‘extra steps,’ but they are certainly quite different from the standard steps required to deactivate a plugin.

    You’ve hijacked the default ‘deactivate’ link with a link that will certainly cause major issues on my site. Just to give some constructive feedback, this has added a lot of extra time to what is typically a simple task. I’ve had to reach out to support to figure out how to remove the plugin without causing great harm to my site. To be honest, it’s a little scary that your plugin will revert changes that it didn’t even make. Maybe keep the ‘Deactivate’ link as-is, but when clicked, ask the user if they want to keep the HTTPS settings as-is, or revert to HTTP? Better would be if that prompt occurred only if your plugin actually made any changes. I’m sure there are other factors involved in this behavior that I am not considering. But this is my honest feedback as an end user.

    Thanks.

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