WP Tool Kit = Why So Hard to Disable? How!?
I started out of the blue getting WP Toolkit scan result emails for my Wordpress sites when I didn't make any changes to the server regarding WP Toolkit and none of the website are listed in the installations yet it is automatically found them. I've got other utilities to scan and protect my Worpress website.
What I am completely baffled by is the supposed lack of a simple setting to disable or remove it from WHM/Cpanel!?!?! What the hell!? I prefer not to have to uninstall packages. All the AI responses on removing it other than removing packages such as removing the installations, disabling the scan, removing the wp-cron job, don't seem to apply to WHM 116?
It isn't listed in the plugin manager as it's "built in". But no toggle to disable it? No setting in Tweak Settings? WTF Cpanel?
How do I just simply DISABLE it all together? Where is the WP Toolkit cron job that is doing all the scanning hiding?
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Eh, I just used the following. Will see if it screws anything else up. The command to check dependencies for all the packages only had a few that said no package requires and the ones that did listed wp-toolkit, libapps, sw-engine so hopefully nothing important on my server needs libapps or sw-engine. Still ridiculous there isn't a disable option in WHM.
rpm -e wp-toolkit-cpanel
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Hey there! We have an article here that shows how you can completely remove this tool from the server:
https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/articles/360058369013-How-can-I-remove-the-WP-Toolkit-Plugin
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BTW cPRex , that page needs updating - at the bottom it reads:
To remove only the wp-toolkit-cpanel plugin rpm, use rpm -e wp-toolkit-cpanel as noted in our official documentation.
which links to https://docs.cpanel.net/knowledge-base/cpanel-developed-plugins/wordpress-toolkit/#uninstall-wordpress-toolkit which is 404 - it should be https://docs.cpanel.net/knowledge-base/cpanel-developed-plugins/wp-toolkit/#uninstall-wp-toolkit .
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Good catch - I'll get that updated!
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On a fresh install of cPanel you can run:
/usr/bin/sh latest --skip-wptoolkit
You, obviously, have to be in the folder where you downloaded latest to run that.
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Isn't it safer using dnf?
dnf remove wp-toolkit-cpanel
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Kenric Ashe - yes, that is correct as outlined at https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/articles/4402268248855-How-do-I-uninstall-WP-Toolkit but this thread is a year old and the previous post was talking about the initial cPanel install.
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I was referring to the rpm command for removal as per the original topic of how to uninstall WP Tool Kit. My understanding is it's safer and easier using dnf instead of rpm because it automatically handles dependencies. I'm not able to edit the support article authored by Ryland.
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Ah, I see what you're saying now - article updated!
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❤️
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Oh wait, I just noticed there are two different support articles.
How can I remove the WP Toolkit Plugin? doesn't need to mention yum, and using dnf means no longer having to check for all those dependencies before uninstalling.
How do I uninstall WP Toolkit? also needs to have rpm changed to dnf.
Ditto at the bottom of the official cPanel Docs page.
Alternatively, both support articles could simply link to the Docs page (after it's updated) so they don't have to be edited again if the instructions ever happen to change again in the future.
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Updated both!
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Sorry to be a pain, but in How can I remove the WP Toolkit Plugin? the entire introductory section about checking all those packages should be removed because dnf handles that automatically.
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It does, but some users may want to manually check those.
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