Title: How do I delete WordPress?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# How do I delete WordPress?

 *  Resolved [james438](https://wordpress.org/support/users/james438/)
 * (@james438)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-delete-wordpress/)
 * When I delete wordpress and reinstall it the posts are still there as well as
   some of the effects from some of plugins. Anyone know what I might be doing wrong?
 * Thanks

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 *  [aleister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aleister/)
 * (@aleister)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-delete-wordpress/#post-366989)
 * It sounds like you are just deleting the files, and not the database.
 * If you have some sort of control panel for your host, go to the database (or 
   mysql) section and delete the database that you setup for wordpress.
 *  Thread Starter [james438](https://wordpress.org/support/users/james438/)
 * (@james438)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-delete-wordpress/#post-367069)
 * Thankyou for the tip. It worked.
 * To be more thorough I still had the same problems after I reinstalled it though,
   but now I was able to tinker around till I found out what the cause was. The 
   best answer I can give is that the beta version of Opera I was using was causing
   all of my troubles with posting causing me to lose all of my sidebars. IE crashed
   when I posted a comment every time. Firefox works though and I am happy with 
   that.
 *  Thread Starter [james438](https://wordpress.org/support/users/james438/)
 * (@james438)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-delete-wordpress/#post-367156)
 * Addendum
 * I looked more closely for the root of the problem and discovered that it was 
   not the browser, but the javascript plugin I was using called ‘multipop’. It 
   looks like the makers are going to look in to it (maybe) and correct the problem.

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