Best practice for complete plugin removal

  • Andrzej

    (@awoz)


    14 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m quite new to WP and over time many of the plugins that I ‘tried’ and then removed still show remnant mysql tables. This suggests that the standard plugin deactivate/delete process does not purge all plugin data. Other than manually diffing a before/after database backup, is there any way to find out which tables are created by a plugin – so that any leftover tables can be removed after the standard uninstall?

    Thank you for all suggestions.

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  • Thread Starter Andrzej

    (@awoz)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    I’ve decided to run a VirtualBox installation of WordPress along with SQL Monitor plugin. This testbed will allow me to see exactly what tables are created during each plugin installation and usage. With these table names in hand, it should be relatively easy to delete the tables with Portable phpMyAdmin.

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