Plugin folders outside the /wp-content/plugins folder

  • Resolved Alovera

    (@alovera)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    Hello,

    The plugin is working well, but I noticed that with the installation, a folder outside the plugins folder has been created: in /wp-content

    The folder’s name is: easy-pie-maintenance-mode: /wp-content/easy-pie-maintenance-mode

    which only contains the folder: mini-themes, which is empty.

    I tried to delete those two folders but I cannot.

    I deactivated and deleted the plugin and still I couldn’t delete the two folders.

    Is the creation of these two folders intended? Are these folders needed? If not, how can I delete them?

    Thank you very much.

    Alovera

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/easy-pie-maintenance-mode/

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  • Plugin Contributor Bob Riley

    (@bobriley)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Alovera – These folders are used to store user defined mini-themes and are unnecessary. It’s odd that you can’t delete them – there isn’t anything in the plugin itself that should prevent that although there may be an odd permissions issue going on between the web server and filesystem.

    I would suggest going into CPanel interface and change the permissions of those directories and then try deleting them again. This page explains how to do that. I recommend enabling write on at least user and group (and world if need be) before trying the delete.

    Please let me know how that works out.

    Bob

    Thread Starter Alovera

    (@alovera)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Bob,

    To know that those folders are unnecessary is what I needed. Thank you very much.

    And yes, the problem of not being able to delete them has nothing to do with your plugin.

    After writing the post to you I realised (through FileZilla) that the owner of the folders was “99 99” instead of the “515 517” which is for the rest of the files. And that’s why I was not able to change the permissions either.

    It looks like PHP creates that ownership according to the Apache default settings.

    Happily my host was able to delete those files. But I now saw that there are another folders that have also “99 99” ownership, so I will see if he can also change the ownership of those files.

    Thanks, Bob, your plugin works beautifully.

    Alovera

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