Title: Plugin folders outside the /wp-content/plugins folder
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Plugin folders outside the /wp-content/plugins folder

 *  Resolved [Alovera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alovera/)
 * (@alovera)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-folders-outside-the-wp-contentplugins-folder/)
 * 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://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-pie-maintenance-mode/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-pie-maintenance-mode/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Bob Riley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobriley/)
 * (@bobriley)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-folders-outside-the-wp-contentplugins-folder/#post-5548991)
 * 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](http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/cpanel/file_permissions.htm)
   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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alovera/)
 * (@alovera)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-folders-outside-the-wp-contentplugins-folder/#post-5549000)
 * 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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 * Last reply from: [Alovera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alovera/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-folders-outside-the-wp-contentplugins-folder/#post-5549000)
 * Status: resolved