Title: Uninstall
Last modified: December 16, 2016

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# Uninstall

 *  [willbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willbell/)
 * (@willbell)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uninstall-37/)
 * A mystery person installed Secure WP on our site. I can’t access it and so cannot
   add plugins or use the html editor or uninstall it. What is the best way to uninstall
   it? I could just delete it from the folders but I’m not sure what, if any, alterations
   it has made to my core WP files. Suggestions?
 * Thank you,
    Will

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 *  [bdbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bdbrown/)
 * (@bdbrown)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uninstall-37/#post-8561605)
 * What is “Secure WP”? Any idea where it came from? Since you can’t install plugins
   you could try using WP-CLI to verify the core WP files:
    [https://wp-cli.org/commands/core/verify-checksums/](https://wp-cli.org/commands/core/verify-checksums/)
 *  Thread Starter [willbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willbell/)
 * (@willbell)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uninstall-37/#post-8693535)
 * Acunetix Secure WordPress
 * I am finding more stuff that is blocked, like editing certain features of the
   menu. I would like to undo this plug-in as simple as possible. I don’t want to
   go through the whole copy/delete/reinstall/update process.
 * Thanks,
    Will
 *  Thread Starter [willbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willbell/)
 * (@willbell)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uninstall-37/#post-8693546)
 * P.S. I have access to all files, so if you could tell me where the login info
   is stored I could just login and uninstall that way.
 *  [bdbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bdbrown/)
 * (@bdbrown)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uninstall-37/#post-8693565)
 * You can use your hosts cPanel file manager or FTP to access your site files. 
   Go to the /wp-content/plugins folder and rename the folder for that plugin. That
   will deactivate it and (hopefully) allow you to log in to your site admin.
 *  Thread Starter [willbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willbell/)
 * (@willbell)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uninstall-37/#post-8831923)
 * Thanks for the reply, sorry I’m acknowledging it so late. The problem is more
   subtle than that. I can access my admin, but certain functions are not available.
   Secure WP turns them off. The reasons I can’t just delete the Secure WP plug-
   in is that I think it has rewritten part of the core code, so I still would not
   have those functions after deleting the plug-in. It’s screwy.
 * Will

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uninstall-37/#post-8831923)
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