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  • January 10, 2018 at 7:02 am #895528
    Eric

    Hi Team,

    I actually hold a license for the LayerSlider plugin that comes together with Enfold.

    However, I would actually prefer to have the plugin available in the WordPress plugin list (rather than integrated with Enfold) so that I can receive automatic updates.

    Also, partly because of security reasons, I like to keep my plugins up-to-date and I can’t do that with a symlink plugin.

    Would it be possible for me to delete the entire LayerSlider (using FTP) in the theme folder? Will I break the theme if I do that?

    I know that there is a way to disable it but I would prefer to remove the folder completely instead of having a folder with a disabled plugin in it (also for security reasons).

    Thanks guys.

    January 10, 2018 at 10:41 am #895576
    Rikard

    Hey Eric,

    You should be able to deregister it if you use this in your functions.php file:

    add_theme_support('deactivate_layerslider');

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    January 10, 2018 at 10:49 am #895587
    Eric

    Hi Rikard,

    Does deregistering it removes the file? Or it just deactivates the plugin?

    I’m keen to remove the entire folder as a whole from the themes folder and re-installing it under the plugins folder.

    Best regards,
    Eric.

    January 11, 2018 at 6:34 am #895990
    Rikard

    Hi Eric,

    Adding that code would not remove any files no, I’ve never tried to do it myself, but maybe you could try adding the code and then deleting the folder afterwards? I can’t guarantee that it would work though, maybe you could try it out on a local install first?

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    January 11, 2018 at 3:44 pm #896182
    Eric

    Hi Rikard,

    Tried renaming the config-slider folder to something else before deleting it completely and it broke the site.

    So, I just replaced the LayerSlider plugin folder with the updated version and it works. I guess I’ll do that for future updates for now.

    However, it’ll be great if updates could be performed on the WordPress dashboard itself.

    Nonetheless, thank you for the advice Rikard. Appreciate it.

    You may close this topic.

    Best regards,
    Eric.

    January 12, 2018 at 7:22 am #896446
    Rikard

    Hi Eric,

    Thanks for the feedback, we’ll try to get that into a future release. I’ll go ahead and close the topic for now, please open a new thread if you should have any further questions or problems.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

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