How to remove plugins?

What are the basic plugins installed when installing Grav? What is the proper method for removing plugins?

I have searched the documents (which mentioned removing plugins, but doesn’t say how). I searched the forums, and there doesn’t seem to be a proper way to remove plugins described anywhere. I have had my site for a while, and installed some plugins, and don’t think I’m using most of them. I appreciate the help.

I guess one of the simple things I overlooked, I can simply disable the plugin, and see if the site continues to work properly. That is simple, and yes, I did over look that. However, the proper steps to removing them, are yet to be determined.

Well, disabling plugins, I broke my staging site (glad it was staging!!!) I found running bin/grav install will tell me these plugins are needed for my site.

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/admin already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/archives already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/breadcrumbs already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/email already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/error already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/external_links already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/featherlight already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/feed already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/form already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/git-sync already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/login already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/markdown-fontawesome already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/page-inject already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/pagination already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/problems already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/relatedpages already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/simplesearch already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/sitemap already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/taxonomylist already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/tntsearch already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/plugins/youtube already exists, skipping...

/home/username/url.com/user/themes/antimatter-open-publishing already exists, skipping...

Now I just need to enable them manually. Still doesn’t answer the question how to remove plugins properly, or how to easily tell what ones are required.

The best way to remove your plugins is in your hosting, removing the folder of plugin.

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Ok, thanks! Of course they should be disabled first.

Somehow I totally broke my staging site…. So I may go with a clean install on the staging site, and rebuild the site that way. I did find one plugin that was no longer maintained.