{"id":60448,"date":"2017-12-13T18:59:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/?p=60448"},"modified":"2021-05-26T11:37:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T10:37:45","slug":"uninstall-completely-remove-woocommerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/woocommerce\/uninstall-completely-remove-woocommerce\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Uninstall and completely remove WooCommerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, right! Why would you want to do that?!<\/p>\n<p>Well, joking aside, there are legitimate reasons to want to take WooCommerce out of a WordPress site (maybe you&#8217;re migrating it to its own subdomain, we do this a lot for our clients), and, when you&#8217;ve got rid of it, you want to take out all the extra information (products, orders, custom post types, etc etc) from the database because, well, its just a lot of cruft you don&#8217;t need if you are completely removing WooCommerce.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for you, the developers who helped to build WooCommerce had your best interests in mind when they created the plugin, and provided a nice way to simply clean out your database when you remove WooCommerce, by following the simple steps below.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-663486df31189\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"ez-toc-cssicon\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #0a0a0a;color:#0a0a0a\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #0a0a0a;color:#0a0a0a\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-663486df31189\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/woocommerce\/uninstall-completely-remove-woocommerce\/#How_to_Uninstall_and_completely_remove_WooCommerce\" title=\"How to Uninstall and completely remove WooCommerce\">How to Uninstall and completely remove WooCommerce<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/woocommerce\/uninstall-completely-remove-woocommerce\/#Will_Anything_be_Left_Behind\" title=\"Will Anything be Left Behind?\">Will Anything be Left Behind?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/woocommerce\/uninstall-completely-remove-woocommerce\/#Note_to_all_WP_Plugin_Developers\" title=\"Note to all WP Plugin Developers\">Note to all WP Plugin Developers<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_Uninstall_and_completely_remove_WooCommerce\"><\/span>How to Uninstall and completely remove WooCommerce<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Open your WordPress install&#8217;s <code>wp-config.php<\/code> file<\/li>\n<li>Right before where it says &#8220;* That\u2019s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. *\/&#8221; insert a new line, and add the following code <code>define ('WC_REMOVE_ALL_DATA', true);<\/code> &#8211; then save your file;<\/li>\n<li>Deactivate WooCommerce at WP-admin &gt; plugins<\/li>\n<li>Delete WooCommerce at WP-admin &gt; plugins<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s it!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find, after adding the constant, that WooCommerce removes all its old data. I&#8217;d recommend to backup your database and files before doing anything like this. Or, consult a good developer and have them do it for you. <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/about-us\/contact-us\/\">Contact us<\/a> to see about WordPress &amp; WooCommerce development on your site.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Will_Anything_be_Left_Behind\"><\/span>Will Anything be Left Behind?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Maybe,<\/strong>\u00a0is the answer. Isn&#8217;t it always! You may find that WooCommerce Extensions, or certain WooCommerce content is left behind even after completely uninstalling in this way. An example of this may be items in the wp_options database.<\/p>\n<p>If you are in this situation, and you&#8217;d like your WordPress Database cleaned up after removing WooCommerce, please <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/about-us\/contact-us\/\">contact us<\/a>. This is something we&#8217;ve done before, and usually in a few hours, we can have your WP site looking spick and span, and loading a lot faster. We&#8217;re also experts at <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wordpress\/optimization\/\">optimizing WordPress<\/a> (with or without <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tag\/woocommerce\/\">WooCommerce<\/a>) so we&#8217;ll be able to point you in the right direction of more performance.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Note_to_all_WP_Plugin_Developers\"><\/span>Note to all WP Plugin Developers<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Please follow suit, and allow the option to remove all the tables, wp_options and other elements your plugin (or theme) might have added to a WordPress webmaster&#8217;s database. Its nice to clean up after yourself. Polite, even.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, right! Why would you want to do that?! Well, joking aside, there are legitimate reasons to want to take WooCommerce out of a WordPress site (maybe you&#8217;re migrating it to its own subdomain, we do this a lot for our clients), and, when you&#8217;ve got rid of it, you want to take out &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"How to Uninstall and completely remove WooCommerce\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/woocommerce\/uninstall-completely-remove-woocommerce\/#more-60448\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to Uninstall and completely remove WooCommerce\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2327],"tags":[2298],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}