How To Do A Complete Wipe

  • I’ve been working with a wordpress template over the past few days and it’s getting me nowhere. On one occasion I tried to restart from scratch. Deleted everything from my server, used the Drop command on my database to clean it out and started again but there always seemed to be something left.

    So question. How do I remove EVERYTHING so that when I reinstall wordpress and my chosen theme it will be like I’ve just been installing WordPress on that domain for the very first time.

    A drastic measure I know but I’ve spent to much time and the blog is not that big at the moment. I suppose I can always load it onto a memory pen and lift it from there.

    Kevin

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  • Delete your WordPress directory.
    Use mysqladmin to drop the database.
    Now everything is gone.

    Thread Starter kah22

    (@kah22)

    Just to be sure. Does the above mean going into my ftp program and deleting everything in the public_html directory and then going to my database and using the Drop command remove the sites database?

    When you installed WordPress, you installed it into a directory on your server. Maybe that directory is public_html. public_html sounds like your root level directory. There may be other files in there you do not want to delete (I’m not sure). Is there a wordpress directory inside of public_html? If so, that is what you want to delete.

    The command to drop the database from a command prompt is mysqladmin drop db, where db is the database name.

    From your FTP client set everything to visible.

    Some files are hidden files, such as .htaccess, and you can’t delete them until you change their hidden attribute to visible.

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