Title: How to remove plugin manually
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# How to remove plugin manually

 *  Resolved [Dayton Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wbbuilder/)
 * (@wbbuilder)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-plugin-manually/)
 * My site was broken and I was getting major errors. Here is the error:
 * The error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /MY ROOT/wp-content/
   plugins/grand-media/inc/core.php on line 2001
 * Furthermore when I logged into my phpMyAdmin to repair and optimize my WordPress
   database, I was getting all kinds of errors. Something was wrong with my database.
 * After contating my hosting company they told me this GMedia Gallery and itsec_lockouts,
   itsec_log, and itsec_temp uses MyISAM but the rest of my WordPress uses InnoDB.
   Which means I have a mixture of storage engines. Maybe its because I used my 
   CPanel Quick Install on this installation (won’t do that again manual seems to
   be better).
 * I was able to disable all plugins to get the site back up, then enable all plugins
   except GMedia and the site now shows fine. But if I try and uninstall GMedi Gallery
   in the Plugins area I get this error again. Meaning I cannot remove it from from
   plugins list and my database.
 * Is it possible to manually remove GMedia Gallery Plugin manually from file and
   database? How can I find all the possible database tables as this is a scary 
   propsition? Also, what is the itsec_ plugin and how can I remove that? Is itsec_
   part of GMedia.
 * I use GMedia on many of my WordPress sites and have never seen this. But for 
   some reason my database tables are not supporting. Please help me remove this
   problem.

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 *  Thread Starter [Dayton Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wbbuilder/)
 * (@wbbuilder)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-plugin-manually/#post-6740416)
 * Bump
 *  [MarkRH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markrh/)
 * (@markrh)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-plugin-manually/#post-6740417)
 * Well, theoretically, you can just go into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
   and delete the **grand-media** directory. This won’t clean up the database though.
 * You might want to ask in the plugin’s support: [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/grand-media#post-form](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/grand-media#post-form)
 *  Thread Starter [Dayton Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wbbuilder/)
 * (@wbbuilder)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-plugin-manually/#post-6740425)
 * That is what I was thinking, but the database is most of the problem in that 
   I can’t even optimize or repair my database due to the mismatched types. I will
   repost in the grand-media area.
 *  Thread Starter [Dayton Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wbbuilder/)
 * (@wbbuilder)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-plugin-manually/#post-6740427)
 * Removed.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Dayton Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wbbuilder/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-plugin-manually/#post-6740427)
 * Status: resolved

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