cfoellmann
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10 years ago First: you should have reset to a backup after encountering these massive problems. Just a tip.
- I am not familiar with Jetpack but these mail notifications must come from the WP.com infrastructure. So it is normal for the service to notify you if some endpoint of your site that is used for these checks is not reachable. Only a proper deactivation of this function might work there.
- I have not heard of these problems but I am not surprised. It think it is a problem of some of the used plugins not following best practices.
- this plugin is pretty simple in how it works So there is room for improvement.
I will get back to this Plugin soon. Let me know of a specific idea we can talk about
leedman
I'm running a multisite and I had been having some speed issues. A support person dialed in to assist and deactivated all the plugins on the multisite by moving the folder of plugins out of wp-content. Ouch... not my way to do things.
Now I don't know if this is typical behavior - this is the first I came across it myself. Even though all the plugins were deactivated/broken/gone - there were functions still running due to those plugins.
Example: JetPack got installed and one of the components alarms you via email when the site goes down. Well, with all these issues the site was going up and down frequently and I was getting emails alerting me of the fact even though the plugin/feature were gone from wp-content.
Fast-forward, all this caused massive pain as the site remained down for days. Pulling the plugins folder out caused more problems than it solved. After much effort, the site came back and I was able to start slowly moving forward again, slowly troubleshooting.
Well, now I've got things running alright but I still get warnings and errors - misconfigurations, and the site is very very slow. So a friend of mine helped me out tonight and upon registering she received 2 activation emails, one from the updated admin email, another from an older admin email of mine. Again, pointing to old plugin data and service somehow being run.
First, have you ever heard such a thing before? And more importantly, could you have your plugin for managing plugins also evaluate what left over pieces are still in the database from uninstalled plugins? And I can't help wonder about background cron jobs possibly still in action, too.