Remove all traces of this plugin from database?

  • Resolved derrickr

    (@derrickr)


    5 years, 1 month ago

    One of my (non-technical) clients has blindly gone ahead and installed 49 plugins into his WordPress installation, one of which is this ‘WP Hide & Security Enhancer’.

    Coupled with the client’s designer ‘friend’ who has tried to further obfuscate the installation path (i.e. /var/www/site-name.uk.com/public_html/site-name), I’ve inherited an implementation that is barely responding and has a massive amount of broken images and links.

    Trawling through the code and the database, the one thing that I’m finding as the common issue is the huge number of re-written paths and URLs that have come about from this plugin.

    I’d therefore like to completely remove the plugin and all traces of it AND its effect on the database.

    Unfortunately, your “Copy the following link to a safe place, which you can use to reset all options, if something go wrong.” URL does nothing and is also broken.

    I’ve copied the files & database to one of my dev servers and, of course, have tried deactivating and removing your plugin’s code, but the database still seems messed up the the site is broken.

    So I’ve now got to the stage of writing many SQL queries to update any paths / URLs that I find are suspect. I’m also converting these updates to sed find & replacements, but sifting through their relatively large 180MB database takes time and I have to be Very careful.

    I’m therefore wondering if you have any tools or advice as to how to restore WordPress to a state without ‘WP Hide & Security Enhancer’?

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  • Plugin Contributor Maya

    (@tdgu)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    At this point, the plugin does not change anything either on files or database, everything is processed dynamically, on the fly. In the past, re-writted images within post content were saved as is, but this has changed some time ago, from what i understand your client started to use the plugin recently. If not the case see this article which might help https://www.wp-hide.com/revert-media-files-urls-default-format/

    Thanks

    Thread Starter derrickr

    (@derrickr)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks very much for the response and good to know the plugin doesn’t change any files or database. My client installed this plugin about a year and a half ago and never updates anything, so perhaps that be one of the reasons for his site misbehaving.

    I’ll be sure to read the article and follow any tips it might have. Once again, thanks for the feedback.

    Cheers!

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