How to Remove Defective Extensions in Shopware?

What will you do if an app or theme in your Shopware store fails to work properly? The answer is that you have to manually remove the extension as well as any associated plugin data.

So, in today’s article, we will explore how to remove defective extensions in Shopware. Let’s get started!

Table of contents

• Why Should You Remove Defective Extensions in Shopware?
• How to Remove Defective Extensions in Shopware?
  • Step 1: Disable functions
  • Step 2: Remove the database entry
  • Step 3: Remove the extension data
• Final Words

Why Should You Remove Defective Extensions in Shopware?

Defective extensions are basically extensions that don’t perform correctly or have flaws, therefore, they obviously do no good for your Shopware shop. Below are some of the most critical reasons why you should remove defective extensions in Shopware:

• Defective extensions in your Shopware store no longer function properly and do not serve the intended purposes.
• Defective extensions could take up a huge amount of data in your Shopware store.
• Defective extensions could slow down your store performance over time.

How to Remove Defective Extensions in Shopware?

To remove defective extensions in Shopware, you will have to delete data from the database and files from your server. As a result, be sure that you have a database and data backup so that you can restore everything in the event of an emergency.

Now without any further ado, let’s learn how to remove defective extensions in just 3 steps!

Step 1: Disable functions

First and foremost, you must disable the functionalities of the defective extension.

For example, if it’s a payment extension or a shipping extension, you’ll need to disable the payment method or shipment method so that consumers can’t use it.

If it is a theme, you should first change it to a different one.

In essence, you should ensure that the functionalities supplied by the defective extension are no longer in use to remove the extension without any issues.

Step 2: Remove the database entry

If you merely want to deactivate the extension, simply set the active column of the plugins database table to 0 in the plugins database table. If you don’t want to use a damaged extension anymore and merely want to deactivate it, this may be sufficient.

If you want to remove it because it’s still causing issues entirely, or if you want to reinstall it, you need to delete the extension’s record from the database table plugins.

Step 3: Remove the extension data

Under particular conditions, the extension may have also established a directory in the store directory, which still needs to be physically deleted from your server. This is normally found in the Custom/Plugins/ directory of the Shopware main directory.

If you can’t seem to find it there, you should consider contacting the extension manufacturer to find out if and where the physical data is stored.

Final Words

An app or theme may fail to work effectively in certain conditions. You may not be able to deactivate or delete the extension in the My Extensions area. If this is the case, the extension and any related plugin data need to be manually removed.

We hope you have learned a lot from our detailed instructions on how to remove defective extensions in Shopware. If you have questions regarding this topic, please feel free to comment down below. We would love to help you out.