Title: Deleting traces from plugins
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Deleting traces from plugins

 *  Resolved [kustv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kustv/)
 * (@kustv)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-traces-from-plugins/)
 * Hi,
    I would like to know if the plugin also removes traces from uninstalled 
   plugins, specifically SEO plugins. I am having a hard time deleting the data 
   from these.
 * Thanks,
    kustv
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-sweep/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-sweep/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-traces-from-plugins/#post-6520308)
 * Nope that is impossible because there is no central registry to indicate what
   the plugin creates. So there is no way for the plugin to know what the plugin
   has been created to deletes it.
 *  Thread Starter [kustv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kustv/)
 * (@kustv)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-traces-from-plugins/#post-6520317)
 * Hi, thank you! Just another thing: I read WP Sweep is not compatible with Woocommerce,
   but I tried it on a testsite and it seemed to work without destroying anything…
   am I missing something or is this very site specific?
 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-traces-from-plugins/#post-6520318)
 * Yeap because I don’t use woocommerce myself.
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-might-be-good-but?replies=5](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-might-be-good-but?replies=5)
 * Feel free to contribute [https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-sweep](https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-sweep)
 *  Thread Starter [kustv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kustv/)
 * (@kustv)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-traces-from-plugins/#post-6520321)
 * But I was saying that it seemed to work on my testsite!
 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-traces-from-plugins/#post-6520324)
 * Yeap. I understand what you said. I say yeap because it might be site specific
   because there are lots of combinations.
 *  Thread Starter [kustv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kustv/)
 * (@kustv)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-traces-from-plugins/#post-6520366)
 * Hmmm…even though Sweep deleted a few things, there are still lots of old things
   left. Do you by chance know how to remove unnecessary and old stuff? Since I 
   don’t know the name of all the files that plugins and themes are creating, I 
   can’t specifically search for them in my database…
 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-traces-from-plugins/#post-6520388)
 * I will not know as well. You have to study the code of the theme and plugins 
   that you are deleting.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-traces-from-plugins/#post-6520388)
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