This happens almost every time if I remember right. I finally decided to report it, though it’s not really a big deal. When I go to delete a website from MainWP, I open the site itself to its dashboard and then use the Settings page and click the Remove button. This works fine as the site does get …

This bug (it is a bug) exists for years now. I’ve reported it as well, but they couldn’t reproduce and it’s hard to debug, because we don’t want to remove sites we want to keep. Sometimes a site can be deleted just fine and you go back to tge list of sites. So there’s a step in the process that de…

Ya that makes sense. I would prefer a rewrite and use popups and such. Maybe if they rewrite the logic the bug would get squashed.

I’m investigating the code at the moment to see where it can hang the removal process and it looks like it happens at one of the following steps: do_action( 'mainwp_delete_site', $website ) do_action( 'mainwp_site_deleted', $website ) But 5 extensions I’ve checked that hook into these actions (Su…

Hey @zackw and @josklever That is correct, we couldn’t reproduce this on our multiple test Dashboards. We will take a look at the report @josklever made in the new thread, and we will take another look at the issue. I’ll update you once I have more info on it.

It could have a ton of causes, but if it’s related to some kind of ping back from the site-to-be-removed, maybe that’s part of it? All my sites run one or both of Solid Security and Sucuri Security, but I also use many hosts. Maybe there is a ping being blocked and that’s all it is? When a site is …

After removing a site, nothing happens - "Removing the site. Please wait..."

Bug

josklever (Jos Klever) July 2, 2026, 9:28am 5

I’ve used Claude AI to help investigate a code and it looks like a timeout of 20 hours combined with a missing .fail() handler could be causing this issue.

I’ve posted my report on: