Title: Plugin Disappeared
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Plugin Disappeared

 *  Resolved [corpcasting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corpcasting/)
 * (@corpcasting)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-disappeared-10/)
 * I logged into my site for the first time in about a week and the Wordfence plugin
   was gone. I checked the FTP .. and the folder for it was there, but the only 
   thing inside was an empty folder called “tmp”. I wasn’t able to reinstall the
   plugin until I deleted the Wordfence folder in the Plugins folder. Any idea what
   could have caused this?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  [WFBrian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfbrian/)
 * (@wfbrian)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-disappeared-10/#post-6549253)
 * Hi,
 * Does anyone else have access to FTP to your site? There is nothing I can think
   of on our end that would have caused Wordfence to be removed.
 * Thanks,
    Brian
 *  Thread Starter [corpcasting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corpcasting/)
 * (@corpcasting)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-disappeared-10/#post-6549326)
 * No one else has access to the FTP. I’ve been building wordpress sites for 6+ 
   years and have never seen something like this happen.
 *  Plugin Author [WFMattR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfmattr/)
 * (@wfmattr)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-disappeared-10/#post-6549339)
 * I have not seen this before either. You may want to check with your host to see
   if they have had any similar issues.
 * If they had issues with the disks and restored from backups, they may have lost
   files that were created on a certain date (which may be after your last update)—
   it would be rare that they wouldn’t have restored the older version of the files,
   though it might be possible on LVM volumes that are split across multiple disks(
   but again, I haven’t seen that happen either).
 *  Plugin Author [WFMattR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfmattr/)
 * (@wfmattr)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-disappeared-10/#post-6549427)
 * corpcasting: Just checking in — were you able to find how the plugin was removed,
   and was the hosting company any help?
 * -Matt R
 *  Thread Starter [corpcasting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corpcasting/)
 * (@corpcasting)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-disappeared-10/#post-6549428)
 * Hey Matt – Thanks for checking in. This one still remains a mystery. I checked
   with my host (GoDaddy) and they were at a loss as well.
 *  Plugin Author [WFMattR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfmattr/)
 * (@wfmattr)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-disappeared-10/#post-6549429)
 * Ok. I’ll mark this resolved for now, as it sounds like it was most likely a problem
   on the particular host, but if it happens again, definitely let us know.
 * -Matt R
 *  Thread Starter [corpcasting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corpcasting/)
 * (@corpcasting)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-disappeared-10/#post-6549430)
 * Sounds good. Will do. Thanks Matt.

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 * Last reply from: [corpcasting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corpcasting/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-disappeared-10/#post-6549430)
 * Status: resolved