Cannot find ‘uninstall’ option as per FAQs

[hangojango]

Hello. I noticed a conflict between Bulletproof Pro and one of my plugins. Actually, they co-existed nicely for quite a while until I added another plugin (Wordfence) but when I deactivated that, nothing changed, and when I deactivated Bulletproof, it worked again. (The plugin is White Label CMS.)

Anyway, I’m fine with letting Bulletproof go as I feel it’s above my non-geek comfort zone. When files get quarantined etc. I don’t know what I’m looking at. Ditto for logs. No doubt great for those trained in geek-speak.

In your FAQ section and elsewhere on the forum, it says that the way to remove Bulletproof is to use the uninstall option beneath the plugin name in plugin list – but it’s not there. Perhaps this is outdated advice?

I am aware that Bulletproof makes lots of changes to .htaccess in particular, and now that I’ve added W3 Total Cache, that has made changes there too so I was wondering how best to remove Bulletproof without messing with code that other plugins need too.

Thanks in advance.

[AITpro Admin]

You can either make a copy of your root .htaccess file first and then manually copy whichever additional non-BPS htaccess code you want to keep and add it to your standard WordPress htaccess file, which will be created when you delete the BPS plugin (see below). Or what is simpler is just to delete the BPS plugin and then resave your W3TC option settings, which will add W3TC htaccess code in your root htaccess file.

To Delete the BPS Pro plugin go to the WordPress Plugins page > Click the Deactivate link for the BPS Pro plugin > Click the Delete link to delete the BPS Pro plugin. Then manually delete this folder: /wp-content/bps-backup/ using FTP or your web host control panel file manager.

[hangojango]

Just to be clear – after I deactivate and delete the plugin, then delete the bps-backup folder, how do I remove irrelevant data from .htaccess? If I just rename it, will WordPress automatically create a new one but without Bulletproof data in it?

 

[hangojango]

no need to respond. Somehow that file was created afresh, perhaps as soon as I deleted the Bulletproof plugin.

Thanks for your help over the years.

 

[AITpro Admin]

Yep, BPS automatically creates a default WordPress htaccess file when you delete the BPS plugin.

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