Title: Completely remove all WordPress work
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Completely remove all WordPress work

 *  [Trowelbar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trowelbar/)
 * (@trowelbar)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/completely-remove-all-wordpress-work/)
 * I would like step-by-step instructions how to completely wipe out everything 
   on my site so I can start over from zero and make a new installation of WordPress;
 * Index of/
    CGI-bin/ wp-admin/ wp-content/ wp-includes/

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 *  Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-3085)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/completely-remove-all-wordpress-work/#post-1898407)
 * delete all files in /
    delete directories wp-admin/, wp-content/, wp-includes/
 * and find and delete the associated database.

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 * [delete](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/delete/)
 * [Start Over](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/start-over/)

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