How To Uninstall WordPress And Start Over

This is a Full Clean Uninstall tutorial.

First of all,

Why would you want to uninstall WordPress?

One of the reasons could be

You start having technical geeky issues like

‘Apache security mod rewrite and htaccess’ error message

or whatever error message you see but don’t understand.

So you try numerous fixes to solve the issue

but you’re getting no result.

So you decided to start over from scratch.

Here’s one of the many ways on how to

uninstall WordPress and start from scratch

in less than 5 minutes.

Let’s start!

Open a new browser like Google Chrome.

This will open a new window

and bring you to your home page.

My home page is a new tab.

Your home page may be different than mine.

For example, it can be Google.com.

If it’s different, then open a new tab.

Click this to open a new

tab.

A new tab will open.

Go to your site’s cPanel/Control panel.

This is how mine looks

like.

Don’t know where your site’s cPanel/Control panel is?

Ask your host or better yet check your email.

Now enter your Username and Password.

Then click Log In.

It will show you something like this.

Look for the file browser.

In my case, it’s the File Manager.

Click it.

The File Manager will open in a new tab.

It will look like this.

Find the folder where all the WordPress files are.

This is usually the folder named public_html.

Select it.

Now it will show your WordPress files.

Select all the files by clicking Select All.

Then click Delete to remove them.

A confirmation window will appear.

Tick the Skip the trash… checkbox and click Confirm.

Now the folder/directory is empty.

After they have been deleted,

click the cPanel logo on the upper-left corner

to go back to your cPanel main page.

Find your MySQL database section and click it.

In my case, it’s MySQL Databases.

It will show you something like this.

Now you will delete the WordPress database table.

Look for the Current Databases section.

Then click Delete.

A confirmation page will appear.

Click Delete Database.

Once deleted, you will see a confirmation message.

Now click Home on the upper-left corner

to go back to your cPanel main page.

Now click MySQL Databases again.

Now you will delete the WordPress database user.

On the MySQL Databases page,

scroll down and look for the Current Users section.

Then click Delete.

A confirmation page will appear.

Click Delete User.

Once deleted, you will see a confirmation message.

That’s it!

You have successfully uninstalled WordPress.

Your website should look like this.

You are now ready to reinstall WordPress.

Thank you for visiting this tutorial!