Hi @solid_snake,
will simply deactivating and deleting this plugin will remove all the kind of data it has stored in our database?
It will. When you delete the Akismet plugin, all information will be removed from your database.
Actually, that’s not technically true: the comment meta associated with Akismet will be left in your database, as it is a WordPress-level record of what happened to the comment(s) at the time of processing. Clearing that would leave a hole in your site’s processing history that would then leave you helpless, should you try to trace a comment’s history, and would be an unrequested and undesirabe data erasure by the plugin. You, as a site owner, can of course feel free to erase whatever data you feel is necessary.
Also running this MySQL query can help.
select * from wp_commentmeta where meta_key like "%akismet_%"
(@solid_snake)
7 years, 11 months ago
Hello!
I am about to uninstall this plugin. However, will simply deactivating and deleting this plugin will remove all the kind of data it has stored in our database?
Please let me know!
Thanks!