Remove or disable a site

You can delete a site from Manage GPL at any time. Doing so frees up a slot under your plan's site limit and removes the site from your dashboard, but doesn't touch the WordPress site itself — the connector plugin stays installed and active until you remove it manually.

Delete from Manage GPL

1. Open the site's page in Manage GPL.
2. In the left-hand sidebar (under the sub-navigation), click the red Delete site button.
3. A confirmation modal opens. Type DELETE in the confirm field and click the red Delete site button.

The site is removed immediately and its URL becomes available for any account to reconnect. The site's plugin & theme list, refresh history, and update logs are deleted as part of this — if you want any of that exported, do it before deleting.

Clean up the connector on the WordPress side

Deleting the site in Manage GPL does not uninstall the connector from WordPress. The modal reminds you of this explicitly: "the WordPress connector plugin stays installed on the site — remove it manually from WP admin if you don't want to leave it behind". To clean up:

1. Log into wp-admin on the site.
2. Go to Plugins.
3. Find Manage GPL Connect (or its whitelabel name, if you'd rebranded it).
4. Click Deactivate, then Delete.

Deactivating the plugin doesn't notify Manage GPL — it just stops the connector from responding. The site row in your dashboard stays put until you delete it.

Alternative direction — start from WordPress

If you want to clear the pairing from the WordPress side, open Settings → Manage GPL Connect and click Regenerate token. That action pings Manage GPL to drop the site row from your account, then rotates both the local token and the HMAC secret on the WordPress side. After that you can deactivate and delete the connector from Plugins normally.

If the plugin is just deactivated without first clicking Regenerate token, the platform-side row remains and shows as unreachable until you delete it manually.

What if I lost access to the WordPress site?

No problem. Deleting on the Manage GPL side works regardless of whether the connector is reachable. If the plugin is still installed on a site you no longer control, it becomes dormant — it'll periodically try to call home and fail silently (no WP admin notices, no user-facing errors). Our HMAC secret is revoked, so even if someone controlled both sides, there's no live pairing to exploit.

Temporary disabling — use Pause instead

If you want to temporarily stop Manage GPL from touching a site (for heavy maintenance, debugging, etc.) without removing it, use Pause instead. Paused sites stay in your account and keep their history, activity log, and settings — refreshes, updates, and SSO are just disabled until you resume.

1. On the site's page, click Pause site in the left-hand sidebar.
2. A modal opens confirming what pause does. Click Pause site again to confirm.
3. When you want to resume, the same button is now labelled Resume site. Click it and confirm.

Does deleting a site affect billing?

Deleting a site frees up a slot under your plan's site limit but doesn't change your subscription or refund anything. If you're at your limit, deleting one site lets you connect another in its place.