Title: completely remove or delete wp redirection?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# completely remove or delete wp redirection?

 *  [MouseClicks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mouseclicks/)
 * (@mouseclicks)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/completely-remove-or-delete-wp-redirection/)
 * Hello,
 * I no longer need the redirection plugin on my site and would like to remove all
   instances of it from the database. However, there are so many entries I don’t
   want to just start randomly removing them. Setting the plugin to inactive and
   even deleting it from the plugins screen does not remove the database entries.
   Does anyone know a safe, effective and quick way to remove it? Thanks.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/)

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 *  [Mad Max](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mad_max/)
 * (@mad_max)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/completely-remove-or-delete-wp-redirection/#post-1840782)
 * Have you check the “_remove Redirection_” option at the bottom of the **Options
   Page**?
 * It should remove everything concerning the plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [MouseClicks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mouseclicks/)
 * (@mouseclicks)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/completely-remove-or-delete-wp-redirection/#post-1840783)
 * Not until you told me it was there. I didn’t see that, thank you.
 *  [Mad Max](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mad_max/)
 * (@mad_max)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/completely-remove-or-delete-wp-redirection/#post-1840789)
 * you’re welcome!
 *  [Vijay Padiyar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vijaypadiyar/)
 * (@vijaypadiyar)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/completely-remove-or-delete-wp-redirection/#post-1840790)
 * Wow! I didn’t know this. Shouldn’t plugin delete take care of deleting the entries
   from the DB too?? This “remove redirection” approach is easily prone to mistakes.
 * Thanks
 * Vijay
 *  [Mad Max](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mad_max/)
 * (@mad_max)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/completely-remove-or-delete-wp-redirection/#post-1840791)
 * Vijay, is quite common for complex plugin to have a “uninstall feature” in their
   options page. WP can’t be aware of all the db entries created and managed by 
   the plugin so it can’t take a general approach to clean those entries. It only
   do what it’s ever safe: disable and delete plugin files.
    On contrary, a plugin
   developer knows exactly what to remove when you no longer need his plugins.
 *  [Vijay Padiyar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vijaypadiyar/)
 * (@vijaypadiyar)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/completely-remove-or-delete-wp-redirection/#post-1840792)
 * Sorry, I meant disable. But yeah, I guess that’s not possible, since a plugin
   could be re-enabled after being disabled. Maybe the options could be copied to
   some config file in the plugin directory and deleted from the table, and restored
   from there if re-enabled. And the file could be deleted if the plugin was deleted.
 *  [thierrydehove](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thierrydehove/)
 * (@thierrydehove)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/completely-remove-or-delete-wp-redirection/#post-1840901)
 * Hi Guys
    can you help me with this bug ?
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-with-redirection?replies=1#post-2349724](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-with-redirection?replies=1#post-2349724)
 * Many Thanks, Thierry

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/completely-remove-or-delete-wp-redirection/#post-1840901)
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