Uninstall question…

  • dizzybigfish

    (@dizzybigfish)


    15 years, 7 months ago

    It appears that my WP site has been compromised. I need to delete everything and start from scratch.

    My WP blog was installed using fantastico.

    My question is – if I uninstall my WP blog using fantastico…

    1) Will it delete my WP user account (I want it to delete the dbase/files, but I want to keep my account and blog name etc) ?

    2) Will I then be able to re-install WP via fantastico using the same details (ie. using the same blog name, username etc etc) ?

    I would like to be able to uninstall and re-install using fantastico to get back to the same place – but I would like to know if it will work before I do it (ie. will it fall over when I re-install, thinking the blog etc already exists ?)

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    1. You don’t have a WordPress user account as such. You can set your blog name back up again when you reinstall.

    2. In theory, yes.

    Thread Starter dizzybigfish

    (@dizzybigfish)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    So,just to clarify….

    I can uninstall my WP blog using fantastico uninstall (this will delete all my posts, database, wp-core files, themes etc etc), and then re-install WP with fantastico – and when I re-install, it will create a new database and wp-core files etc etc and I can still use the same blog name and WP username as the original (then I can go in and start re-building everything again) ?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    From what I can recall (it’s been a while since I used a Fantastico 1-click install), yes, yes and yes. 🙂

    Thread Starter dizzybigfish

    (@dizzybigfish)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Many thanks for your help Esmi

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    You’re welcome. 🙂

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