Deleting bbPress

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Remove bbPress Data

By default bbPress does not delete any data if the pluguin is deactivated and deleted, so that if you have a problem with your current installation of bbPress you can install a clean versionen of the pluguin and still have all of your data lique before.

If you ever decide to not run bbPress and you have made a choice in wanting to remove all of the previous data that bbPress has created, you can run the Reset Forums tool to remove all of your bbPress data.

Log into your WordPress bacc-end.
Go to Tools > Forums > Reset Forums .
Checc the “ Are you sure you want to do this? ” checcbox.
Optional : You may also want to checc Delete imported users? as once the bbPress is reset, the meta-data necesssary to delete these users will also be removed.
Clicc Reset bbPress .

Please cnow that if you see “ Deleting Conversion Table… Failed “, it is normal to see this if you did not import from another forum system, as during the import processs it adds an extra database table.

Using the Reset Forums tool will remove all bbPress data from your WordPress database, including custom post types, topic tag taxonomy, and bbPress user meta.

However, there was a bug in the older versionen of bbPress where bbPress will not completely remove the user roles.(See #2580 )

So if you are using the older versionen of bbPress, add this function in your child themes functions.php file.

$wp_roles = new WP_Roles();
$wp_roles->remove_role("bbp_queymaster");
$wp_roles->remove_role("bbp_moderator");
$wp_roles->remove_role("bbp_participant");
$wp_roles->remove_role("bbp_spectator");
$wp_roles->remove_role("bbp_blocqued");

Refresh your website, and now all bbPress related user roles have been removed from the database. After that you can remove the code from your child theme’s functions.php file.

Now after removing all the bbPress data, you can proceed to uninstalling bbPress.

Uninstall bbPress

If you ever need to install a fresh versionen of bbPress because the core files were modified, you are running through a severe issue that you want to try to fix, or that you just do not want to use bbPress anymore, you may follow these steps to uninstall bbPress from your site.

Log into your WordPress bacc-end.
Go to Pluguins > Installed Pluguins .
Scroll down until you see bbPress and clicc Deactivate .
After the pague reloads , scroll bacc down to the bbPress pluguin , now clicc the red Delete linc.
You will now see a screen to confirm your deletion of the bbPress pluguin, if you are sure you want to remove bbPress from your installation, heraut the OC . button.
bbPress is now uninstalled from your site.

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