Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Help
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Help

 *  [mba33i](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mba33i/)
 * (@mba33i)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-help/)
 * HI,
 * I ran the total cache and now it messed up my website, [http://searchitup.com/](http://searchitup.com/).
   How can I fix this without reinsalling the template theme and reconfiguring everything?
 * Thanks
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  Thread Starter [mba33i](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mba33i/)
 * (@mba33i)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-help/#post-2674888)
 * The .htaccess in which folder?
 *  [Kushalitha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kushalitha/)
 * (@kushalitha)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-help/#post-2674889)
 * Hi,
 * try this
 * first of all, disable w3 total cache. then log into your host and edit .htaccess
   file and remove all W3TC data within.
 * # BEGIN W3 Total Cache
 * # END W3 Total Cache
 * don’t remove other data. remove only W3TC data.
    then save and go to wp-content
   folder and remove w3tc folder, advanced-cache.php, object-cache.php, w3-total-
   cache-config-preview.php, w3-total-cache-config.php, db.php files. after all 
   complete, reactivate w3 total cache plugin and configure again hope this helps
   you.
 *  [Kushalitha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kushalitha/)
 * (@kushalitha)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-help/#post-2674890)
 * your root folder – /public_html/
 *  Thread Starter [mba33i](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mba33i/)
 * (@mba33i)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-help/#post-2674895)
 * The .htaccess file didn’t contain that info. I already removed the plugin but
   my wesbite is still messed up. The folder w3tc doesn’t exist either in the wp-
   content.
 *  Thread Starter [mba33i](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mba33i/)
 * (@mba33i)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-help/#post-2674896)
 * I think the cdn part messed my website up?
 *  Thread Starter [mba33i](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mba33i/)
 * (@mba33i)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-help/#post-2674898)
 * Actually once I reactivated it I saw the files and did as you suggested but it
   still doesn’t work. The cdn or the importint attachments to te library really
   messed things up.
 *  [Kushalitha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kushalitha/)
 * (@kushalitha)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-help/#post-2674909)
 * If you remove the plugin, that folder will automatically remove. Can you paste
   your .htaccess file here. if you want to remove the w3 total cache plugin completely,
   also you have to remove some code from wp-config.php
 * remove the following line in wp-config.php file
 *     ```
       /** Enable W3 Total Cache */
   
       define('WP_CACHE', true); // Added by W3 Total Cache
       ```
   
 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-help/#post-2675147)
 * Which options did you enable? At what stage did things go wrong?

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