Cannot delete or deactivate PlugVersions without breaking site.

Hi @richwpaccount

When I deactivate the plugin, it deactivates all plugins that have been updated during the time while using PlugVersions

Do you mean it deactivates also the last version of the plugins that were updated? This is theoretically not possible.
While PlugVersions is active it filters the names of the updated plugins. Only one version of the updated plugins is active, and all the other names are filtered by PlugVersions, but they are not active in any case. When you deactivate PlugVersions, it does exactly nothing. No line of code runs during the deactivation. On the contrary, when you delete it, then it removes all the additional versions.

When trying to reactivate the deactivated plugins, a lot of fatal errors occour.

Of course, you have fatal errors because you try to activate versions of a plugin that is already active and you have a lot of functions that are defined two times. This is what generates fatal errors.

It also leaves old versions in my server update notifications list.

Those versions are on the server until you delete PlugVersions. It’s not enough to deactivate it. You need to delete it.

How do you SAFELY delete your plugin without destrying my website?

As I understand, you didn’t try to delete the plugin, but only to deactivate it. To safely delete PlugVersions I suggest you:

• Make a full backup, especially of your plugins
• Deactivate PlugVersions from the page of plugins
• Delete PlugVersions from the page of plugins

PlugVersions doesn’t touch your database. It only saves the versions of the updated plugins and changes the names. Nothing else. While it is active it filters those names. When you deactivate it, it does nothing. When you delete it, it deletes all the versions and keeps only the active versions.

Let me know if something is not clear or if I didn’t understand your thread.

Best regards

Jose