Title: database reset
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# database reset

 *  [Loggy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loggy/)
 * (@loggy)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-reset/)
 * I have a question about the various Database Reset plugins.
 * Which (if any) of these will clean out the tables, removing unused tables and
   all the junk from the options table while leaving the data for currently installed(
   but maybe deactivated) plugins and themes alone?
 * In other words, cleaning the database would have list all entries from all plugins
   and themes currently installed plus of course the core code and not touch them
   but remove the unwanted contents.
 * This is quite a big task which would have to mimic all installed plugin/theme
   activity although presumably as long as the plugin/theme maintains the correct
   prefix for tables and entries within tables, it may not be so big a problem.
 * I am not secure that any of the present database cleaning plugins will do this–
   they mainly refer to returning the intallation to a ‘virgin’ state which could
   imply they will remove data from activated and deactivated plugins and themes.
 * TIA

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 *  [Jon Dingman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdingman/)
 * (@jdingman)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-reset/#post-2433019)
 * Here’s a post from 3 years ago that’s still relevant today:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/clean-out-the-database](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/clean-out-the-database)
 *  Thread Starter [Loggy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loggy/)
 * (@loggy)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-reset/#post-2433091)
 * Thanks Jonathan. It seems there is no such facility.
 * As I suspected it would be quite difficult given that not all plugins and themes
   that people may use actually obey the rules and checking on created tables would
   really mean parsing all the php in each setup. And the table contents – particularly
   the _options table – would be even more difficult 🙂

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