It is easy to uninstall your WordPress blog automatically if you use automatic installation software such as Fantastisco when you install it in first place. You need to only do click uninstall facility of Fantastisco to uninstall your WordPress blog completely in proper way. But – if you are in condition that must uninstall your WordPress blog manually, you may be find as hard task. But do not worry because I share how you can uninstall WordPress Blog manually in this article. I use my sub domain as example in this article– but it is surely can also apply when you want to uninstall the domain it self. It should go trough the same process if there are no unusual configuration.
OK, let’s uninstall our WordPress Blog manually in just two steps:
Step #1 Remove the file
I remove sub-domain file by deleting it trough FTP client. I use FileZilla as one of great free FTP client for it so I can easily do this step.
Step #2 Remove The Database
This is the most important part in WordPress Blog manual uninstalling so can get the clean uninstalling result. OK, let’s do this step. I remove all data base that related with sub domain trough Cpanel. I use MySQL Databases Features that available in my Cpanel (thanks to HostGator to uninstall the database easily.
Just click the icon and it will bring to my WordPress database. The next step is that I only need to delete sub-domain database which I want to remove. If i do not know the exact database, I always can check it trough phpMyAdmin which also available in my Cpanel. Since I remember the database name, I just delete it without need to check it trough phpMyAdmin.
The confirmation page will pop up. Just click “yes” to completely remove the database.
And I also delete the user for the database.
The confirmation page will pop up. Just click “yes” to completely remove the database’s user.
It’s A Rub!
Yup, It is a rub! The manual uninstalling process of a WordPress Blog is complete. Now, I can use the sub domain freely for other usage. I can install a new fresh WordPress platform on it or also can install another platform such as joomla if I need new venture. In short, the sub domain (or domain) already free to use for whatever that needed.
nice info…thanks Danna for giving that information, its really useful for me…
how do i uninstall word press if i didn’t go through fantastisco? here’s the thing…. i installed word press without going through the c-panel in brain host. i installed it by it self now when i signed into my c-panel it won’t let me install word press through that because it’s already installed on my computer. do you have any soulations on what to do ?
thank you
deanne
I think you can just delete the whole WordPress files via FTP and then delete the database via Cpanel (any database application in it) or via the installed mysql app in your PC.
Hi Dana,
Just wanted to tell you that it took me around half an hour to figure out how to drop a damn database in cPanel LOL until I found your post of course!
I was busting my a** to drop the DB from phpMyAdmin until I found your post and saw MySQL databases and I went like noooo there’s another thing for databases? LOL
Anyway, thank you for this, it was driving me crazy already!
~Sergio
Glad that this post can help you Sergio.
I need it to reinstall my blog ok. So, What i did was deleting the database first and when accessing my website it sends me to intall which is what i wanted. Is this the best prectices?
In my opinion, yes, it is.
haha , so simple , yet people want to learn it. Thats right , its not actually what we know , its about what people want to know that we bloggers write , as simple as that …..
Yes it is. And this blog post surely brings many traffic for this blog.
Nice info. Many people forget to delete the database.
Thanks Gaouri.
Great you have searched new thing for beginners.I will try also for best practice..Thanks for sharing..
You’re welcome mate.
Never came this way, will keep in mind. Good post
Glad you like it.
Honestly when I first saw this post I thought you were going to tell me how to install it manually, not how to uninstall it
OK, now I know but I hope I will never have to go through it.
Hahaha … yes, it is uninstall not install. If you want to read how to manually install WordPress Blog you can read in my wordpress installation in free7 article
Hey Sire,
You’re everywhere! LOL
It was fun to watch you around here, totally unexpected!
I dont know but I would rather still just have fantastico do that for me.
sure, if you can, use fantastisco instead.
Good steps buddy. I never tried to uninstall the wordpress. This will help me a lot in future
Glad if it will help you in future.
Very useful for wordpress fans. I did this way only. Thanks
Yeah — i hope it is.