How to completely uninstall Polylang?

  • Resolved jouriena

    (@jouriena)


    9 years ago

    Hi,

    I just uninstall Polylang from my site (I’ll be working with Woocommerce and Polylang cannot fully support Woocommerce at the moment). But when I check in my site directory (via cPanel), I can still see the language folders in /wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/… despite having emptied cache in my WP dashboard. Is this normal? Is it ok to delete these files?

    On WP dashboard, I also noticed that the pages in another language still exist, so are the product categories in that language (note: I was testing Polylang on my site with only 2 languages). Is it safe to just delete these pages and categories?
    Would these be considered as complete uninstallation?

    Please advise.

    Best regards,

    John

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/polylang/

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  • Plugin Author Chouby

    (@chouby)

    Hi!

    The files in the cache directory are not added by Polylang. Probably your cache plugin. Probably safe to delete.

    I also noticed that the pages in another language still exist

    When you uninstall Polylang (and check the option to remove all data in Settings->languages->tools), Polylang removes all its data ( options, languages and translations informations) but all your content ( posts, pages, categories… ) is kept intact. This is necessary, if for example, you want to migrate to another multilingual plugin.

    Thread Starter jouriena

    (@jouriena)

    Thanks for your reply, Chouby. I just checked my directory again today. Polylang files in cache directory are now gone – very likely expired. I find it a bit strange that I couldn’t delete these files by emptying cache on my WP dashboard (with W3 Total Cache).

    Hi everyone. Apologies to Jouriena for interrupt in this theme, but I have no idea how to send the message to Chouby.
    I had problem with deleting Polylang. After deactivating and deleting all pages are gone with navbar.. They were existed but didn’t showed up.. The problem was with language icons, that I added in header code in theme. After deleting the Polylang there was an error and web-site didn’t showed up.. Maybe for someone it will be helpful.

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