Removing Malfunctioning Plugins

Confluence goes to some lengths to prevent itself being unusable due to a problematic plugin. However, sometimes a plugin will manage to do this anyway.

Deleting a plugin from the Database

To remove a plugin from Confluence when Confluence is not running:

1. Connect to the Confluence database.
2. Run the following SQL statement in your database:

   select plugindataid, pluginkey,filename,lastmoddate from plugindata;
   

3. After you have found the plugindataid for the offending plugin, please run the following:

   delete from plugindata where plugindataid='XXXXXX';
   

   where XXXXXX is the plugindataid value.
4. Restart Confluence.

Deleting a Bundled Plugin

If you need to remove a bundled plugin, check to see if you have duplicates in the <confluence-home>/bundled-plugins or <confluence-home>/plugin-cache directory.

Usually, the problem is that an old plugin is getting loaded along with the properly bundled one, but if you need to remove a bundled plugin, check Plugin loading strategies in Confluence.