How do I uninstall Plug in SEO?

If Plug in SEO is currently installed in your theme note that uninstalling will mean that the page titles and meta descriptions currently being generated will no longer be. Uninstalling will change a lot of page titles and meta descriptions throughout your entire shop.

You will no longer have the structured data through your site that Google uses to generate enhanced listings. Broken links will no longer be tracked. You'll lose access to the Keywords checker and all of your SEO settings in the 'Your Plus Benefits' tab.

Like any SEO change, this carries some risk of harming your performance on search engines.

Overview

To uninstall you'll:

• Remove the Plug in SEO app from your Shopify admin
• Remove the {% include 'pluginseo' %} from your theme.liquid template, and restore your original page title and meta description code

This completely removes all of the SEO enhancements given to your shop by Plug in SEO Plus. Search engines will no longer see these.

If you might install Plug in SEO in future, stop here to preserve any of your settings.

But optionally you can also:

• Remove the Plug in SEO snippets from your theme
• Remove the Plug in SEO settings from your theme

1) Remove the Plug in SEO app from your Shopify admin
Go to your Shopify admin Apps, and remove the 'Plug in SEO' app.

This has now cancelled your Plug in SEO subscription and any future payments. Note that the app billing on Shopify means you may see one final charge for the current period on your next Shopify invoice.

Read about app billing on Shopify.

If you have a query, email support@shopify.com and CC help@pluginseo.com.

2)  Remove the code from your theme.liquid
Depending on how you installed Plug in SEO Plus you can choose one of these options:

• restore an entire theme backup or parts of it
• remove the Plug in SEO Plus snippets, uncomment old code
• remove the Plug in SEO Plus snippets, add default basic Shopify code

Option 1: Restore an entire theme backup or parts of it

If a backup was taken before installation and there have been no code changes to the theme you can simply make the backup your new published theme.

Or, look in the backup for how your page titles and meta descriptions were generated before, copy and paste this code into your current theme.

{%- capture seo_title -%}
    {%- if request.page_type == 'search' and search.performed == true -%}
      {{ 'general.search.heading' | t: count: search.results_count }}: {{ 'general.search.results_with_count' | t: terms: search.terms, count: search.results_count }}
    {%- else -%}
      {{ page_title }}
    {%- endif -%}
    {%- if current_tags -%}
      {%- assign meta_tags = current_tags | join: ', ' -%} – {{ 'general.meta.tags' | t: tags: meta_tags -}}
    {%- endif -%}
    {%- if current_page != 1 -%}
      – {{ 'general.meta.page' | t: page: current_page }}
    {%- endif -%}
    {%- assign escaped_page_title = page_title | escape -%}
    {%- unless escaped_page_title contains shop.name -%}
      – {{ shop.name }}
    {%- endunless -%}
  {%- endcapture -%}

  <title>{{ seo_title | strip }}</title>
  {%- if page_description -%}
    <meta name="description" content="{{ page_description | escape }}">
  {%- endif -%}

Also, remove the {% include 'pluginseo' %} from theme.liquid.

Option 2: Uncomment old code

If the old code was just {% comment %} out, remove the {% include 'pluginseo' %} from theme.liquid and remove the comments.

Option 3: Add default basic Shopify code

Failing this, you can use the default basic Shopify code instead. Remove the {% include 'pluginseo' %} from theme.liquid and remove the comments.

Then add in the default title tag and meta description.

Once you've completed 1 & 2 above, you've completely removed all of the SEO enhancements given to your shop by Plug in SEO Plus. Search engines will no longer see these.

Optionally, you can remove other pieces in steps 3 & 4. Leaving them in or removing them doesn't affect your shop's SEO, speed or functionality in any way.

If you'd like to do these optional steps, take a look at the video showing how to do them (it goes step-by-step through the whole process).

3) Optional: Remove the snippets

In your Shopify admin, go to the theme editor and find the snippets folder. Delete all of the snippets whose name starts with pluginseo.

4) Optional: Remove the theme settings

In your Shopify admin, go to the theme editor and find the config folder.

1. Open up settings_schema.json
2. Delete the Plug in SEO Plus settings sections as shown in the last part of the video
3. Save

Got stuck? Need a hand? Email us at help@pluginseo.com and we will do the code cleanup free of charge.