Title: uninstall_{$file}
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: February 24, 2026

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# do_action( “uninstall_{$file}” )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/uninstall_file/?output_format=md#description)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/uninstall_file/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/uninstall_file/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/uninstall_file/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Fires in [uninstall_plugin()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/uninstall_plugin/)
once the plugin has been uninstalled.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/uninstall_file/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

The action concatenates the ‘uninstall_’ prefix with the basename of the plugin 
passed to [uninstall_plugin()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/uninstall_plugin/)
to create a dynamically-named action.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/uninstall_file/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    do_action( "uninstall_{$file}" );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php#L1351)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php#L1351-L1351)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/uninstall_file/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [uninstall_plugin()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/uninstall_plugin/)`wp-admin/includes/plugin.php` |

Uninstalls a single plugin.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/uninstall_file/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [2.7.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.7.0/) | Introduced. |

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