WP Tool Kit = Why So Hard to Disable? How!?

consultant

• February 14, 2024 18:51
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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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  consultant

  • February 14, 2024 19:02
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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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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • February 14, 2024 19:42

  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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  rbairwell

  • February 14, 2024 19:55

  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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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • February 14, 2024 19:57

  Good catch - I'll get that updated!

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  ffeingol

  • February 14, 2024 22:39

  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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