Title: reinstalling wordpress
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# reinstalling wordpress

 *  [jedi_430](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jedi_430/)
 * (@jedi_430)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstalling-wordpress-7/)
 * Hi. I have been having problems with a website I am working on like receiving
   error messages everytime I install or update plugins. I contacted the site’s 
   host regarding this but still the problem persisted. I decided to reinstall WordPress
   because I was thinking that maybe it has been corrupted. I started deleting the
   WordPress files through FTP since the host does not use cPanel. However, the 
   wp-content does not delete after several attempts. Why do this happen? How can
   I delete it?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstalling-wordpress-7/#post-5109243)
 * Leave the wp-content folder alone! Try re-uploading all files & folders – **except**
   the root wp-config.php & .htaccess files and the wp-content folder – from a **
   fresh** download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files&
   folder before uploading the new ones.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstalling-wordpress-7/#post-5109243)
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