All plugins deactivated, including sucuri, can't reinstall

Yes, this is a known issue that I fixed three weeks ago, but the QA team has not approved other changes that I made in the plugin to add new features requested by other users, so the release of the update with the fix was delayed.

I recommend you to download the development version from here [1] and use that until the public release is announced and populated through the WordPress marketplace. For now you can re-install the plugins that were deleted manually with this simple script:

cd wp-content/plugins/
for plugin in $(ls -1); do
    wget "https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/${plugin}.zip"
    unzip "./${plugin}.zip"
    rm -f "./${plugin}.zip"
done

No data will be lost in this process because the Sucuri plugin only deletes the files inside this directory and generally (if not always) the data collected by these extensions is stored in the database (which is not touched by the Sucuri plugin). You only need to run this script once, go to the plugins page and activate them all.

Thanks. How/where do I run this script?

You surely have access to your website through SSH, use that to connect to the server and then create a file (with any extension), then execute it using a command like this “bash /path/of/the/file”.

If you do not have SSH access or do not want to use it then I can generate a Zip file with all the plugins that were deleted and send it to you via email, but I will require a list with the name of the directories that were left behind in the plugins directory. Log into the cPanel of your site and find a page named “File Manager”, you probably have used this interface before, if not then simply navigate through the directories as you do with the “File Explorer” of your computer.

Locate the diretory “public_html/wp-content/plugins/” or something similar. Then take a note of all the directory names listed there, or simply take a screenshot and send it to me at [deleted] (I will delete this email later for security reasons, you will probably get a copy of the original comment in your inbox).

Let me know how do you want to proceed.

I’m not that tech-savvy, sorry (not even sure what SSH is), I’m hosted with GoDaddy, so you should get an idea ?? . I have sent you a screenshot.

Thanks!