Uninstall Delete WP Super-Cache

How to Uninstall, remove and delete WP Super-Cache easily from your self-hosted WordPress blog

For other WordPress plugins, to delete them is easy: deactivate it, and delete it. For WP Super-cache, however, you need to do an additional work in oder to be able to uninstall and delete it altogether from your WordPress system.

There are three methods on this. The first two are quite similar, while the third is manual.

CONTENTS

1. How to Delete / Uninstall WP Super-cache
   1. Method One
   2. Method Two
   3. Method Three
2. Why we want to delete WP Super-cache

How to Delete / Uninstall WP Super-cache. The uninstallment and deletion can be done from within WordPress admin interface.

I. 1. Method One
Follow these simple step by step tutorials

1. After login to your WordPress blog -> Plugins -> Plugins
2. In WP Super-Cache -> click Edit
3. In Plugin Files panel, click Uninstall.php
4. Find this code: define( ‘UNINSTALL_WPSUPERCACHE’, '' );

5. Change it to:     define( ‘UNINSTALL_WPSUPERCACHE’, '1' );

6. Click Update File.
7. Now, go to Plugins -> WP Super Cache -> Deactivate
8. Delete. -> Done.

I.2. Method Two

1. After login to your WordPress blog -> Plugins -> Plugins
2. In WP Super-Cache -> click Edit
3. In Plugin Files panel, click Uninstall.php
4. Find this code: define( ‘UNINSTALL_WPSUPERCACHE', '' );
5. Change it to: define( ‘UNINSTALL_WPSUPERCACHE’, '1' );
6. Click Update File.
7. Open your browser (Firefox or IE) and load directly http://example.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-super-cache/uninstall.php .
8. Confirm the deletion.
9. Back to your WP Dashboard and delete plugins:  Plugins -> Plugins -> WP Super-Cache -> Delete. Done.

I.3. Method Three: Remove Manually

1. Remove the WP_CACHE define from wp-config.php. It looks like define( 'WP_CACHE', true );
2. Clear the cache in the backend page and then deactivate the plugin on the plugins page.
3. Remove the Super Cache mod_rewrite rules from your .htaccess file.
4. Remove the files wp-content/advanced-cache.php and wp-content/wp-cache-config.php
5. Remove the directory wp-content/cache/
6. Remove the directory wp-super-cache from your plugins directory.

Further reading

II. Why we want to delete WP Super-cache
There are various reasons why one wants to delete a plugin, or WP Super-cache in this case. Some reasons being:

1. This plugins is not compatible with other plugins which is considered more important to a particular blogger.
2. You may want to change to another caching plugins which is more advanced and highly recommended by your hosting provider–this is my case.