Title: Removing Custom Fields
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Removing Custom Fields

 *  [radiotronpodcast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radiotronpodcast/)
 * (@radiotronpodcast)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-custom-fields/)
 * Please can someone tell me how I can remove the custom field names that I no 
   longer use. I have got quite a few as different themes require different fields.
 * Thanks

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-custom-fields/#post-1118454)
 * Could use [phpMyadmin](http://codex.wordpress.org/phpMyadmin) to do that.
 * Backup your database before doing anything.
 * Delete all custom fields with key = cf1
 *     ```
       DELETE FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = 'cf1'
       ```
   
 * Change wp_postmeta to be whatever your postmeta table is named.
 *  [stratboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stratboy/)
 * (@stratboy)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-custom-fields/#post-1118738)
 * why cf1? what does it mean?

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 * Last activity: [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-custom-fields/#post-1118738)
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