Title: Removing Plugins (general question)
Last modified: October 14, 2020

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# Removing Plugins (general question)

 *  [catherder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catherder/)
 * (@catherder)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-plugins-general-question/)
 * If you decide to remove a plugin later because you want to use an alternative,
   do the tables and entries that the plugin created stay on your database after
   you have deactivated and deleted the plugin?
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by [catherder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catherder/).

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 *  [Kartik Shukla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kartiks16/)
 * (@kartiks16)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-plugins-general-question/#post-13531565)
 * Hello catherder,
 * Ideally when you deactivate the plugin, the database tables stays as it is, but
   if you delete the plugin it will delete its related database tables.
 * Most of the plugin works in this manner unless you have developed some custom
   plugin and managed to keep the database table, during the delete action.
 * Let me know if you need any additional details on this.
 * Thanks.

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