Title: [Plugin: Search Engine] Complete Uninstall
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Search Engine] Complete Uninstall

 *  Resolved [holling](https://wordpress.org/support/users/holling/)
 * (@holling)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-engine-complete-uninstall/)
 * Hi Scott –
 * wonder if you could give some instructions as to how to fully uninstall the plugin…
   or more specifically, which DB tables to drop.
 * Somehow managed to alter the plugin such that when it’s active, the front- and
   back- end of my site are completely blank. Moving the SE folder out of plugins
   solve the problem, so I’d like to wipe it out and reinstall clean.
 * Suggestions would be great.
 * Thanks – Holling

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 *  Plugin Author [Scott Kingsley Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sc0ttkclark/)
 * (@sc0ttkclark)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-engine-complete-uninstall/#post-1964799)
 * Sure. Remove all wp_searchengine* tables
 *  Thread Starter [holling](https://wordpress.org/support/users/holling/)
 * (@holling)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-engine-complete-uninstall/#post-1964895)
 * Thank you, sir! Just to be safe, I also removed the two setting entries in the
   wp_options table, then reinstalled via the WP Add Plugin feature. Fixed my problem.
 * Best – H
 *  Plugin Author [Scott Kingsley Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sc0ttkclark/)
 * (@sc0ttkclark)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-engine-complete-uninstall/#post-1964899)
 * Great. Did you by chance try the Reset option in the Search Engine settings page?
   It reset the tables and options.
 *  Thread Starter [holling](https://wordpress.org/support/users/holling/)
 * (@holling)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-engine-complete-uninstall/#post-1964910)
 * I didn’t because the activated plugin rendered the front and back-end of the 
   site unloadable…so the only way to disable SE was to move the folder out of the
   plugins folder.
 * I don’t expect this is a standard problem…I was tinkering with search-engine.
   php trying to set the custom CSS constant and even backing out of that change(
   using undo in Textmate) didn’t solve the problem.
 * Looking for better solutions to overriding the CSS…especially since a great number
   of CSS rules are set to !important, which makes styling this puppy slightly tricky(
   and time consuming).
 * I haven’t mentioned, but thanks for this plugin — looking forward its support
   of PODS content!
 * Best – Holling
 *  Plugin Author [Scott Kingsley Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sc0ttkclark/)
 * (@sc0ttkclark)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-engine-complete-uninstall/#post-1964913)
 * BTW, just define(‘SEARCH_ENGINE_CUSTOM_CSS’,true); in your wp-config.php and 
   it won’t output styles. Then pop in your own stylesheet.
 *  Thread Starter [holling](https://wordpress.org/support/users/holling/)
 * (@holling)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-engine-complete-uninstall/#post-1964964)
 * That did the trick, Thanks!

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 * Last reply from: [holling](https://wordpress.org/support/users/holling/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-engine-complete-uninstall/#post-1964964)
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