---
title: "Removing the WP Foreman plugin"
url: https://wpforeman.com/docs/removing-the-plugin/
description: "How to disconnect a website from WP Foreman, deactivate and delete the plugin, and what deleting it removes from the site."
updated: 2026-10-31
---

# Removing the WP Foreman plugin

To stop managing a website with WP Foreman, disconnect it, delete the plugin in WordPress, then remove the site from WP Foreman.

1. In the site’s WordPress admin, go to **Settings › WP Foreman** and click **Disconnect**.
2. Go to **Plugins**, click **Deactivate** under WP Foreman, then click **Delete**. With plugin 0.10.4 or newer, this removes everything the plugin stored (see below).
3. In WP Foreman, open the site’s **Site settings** and use **Remove this site**. See [Disconnecting a site](https://wpforeman.com/docs/disconnecting/).

On an older plugin, [update it](https://wpforeman.com/docs/update-the-wp-foreman-plugin/) first, then delete it, so the cleanup runs.

## What deleting the plugin removes

- The connection keys, so nothing can send the site commands as WP Foreman any more.
- Its settings: the plugin’s name and visibility (white label), the site-log notes waiting to be sent, and the last WP Admin sign-in.
- Leftovers from backups and form tests that were cut off part-way.
- Its temporary folder, `wp-content/uploads/wpforeman-tmp`.
- Anything a restore that never finished left behind: its temporary database tables and its small helper file in `wp-content/mu-plugins`.

On a multisite network this runs for every site in the network.

**Disconnect** on its own works differently: it removes the connection keys but keeps the white-label and site-log settings, so if you connect the site again it looks the same as before.

## Deleted by FTP or through the host?

WordPress only runs a plugin’s cleanup when you delete it from the **Plugins** page. If the plugin folder was deleted another way (FTP, the host’s file manager, `wp plugin delete`), its settings and keys are still in the database. Remove them with WP-CLI from the site’s folder:

```
wp option list --search='wpforeman_*' --field=option_name | xargs -n1 wp option delete
wp option list --search='_wpf_test_*' --field=option_name | xargs -n1 wp option delete
rm -rf wp-content/uploads/wpforeman-tmp
```

No WP-CLI? Upload the plugin again, activate it, then deactivate and delete it from the **Plugins** page.

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