Uninstall and clean database

[Nicholas Turbanov]

Hey,

I’d like to completely remove The Events Calendar, The Events Calendar PRO, Event Tickets and Event Tickets Plus from an installation.

Is there any recommended way to do this so that all the related stuff in the database would get removed as well? And by this I mean all custom post type posts created by the plugins from the posts table, all related post meta from the postmeta table and all plugin options from the options table.

Cheers,

Nicholas

[Cliff]

Hi, Nicholas.

You should delete all the data you can via wp-admin (e.g. go to wp-admin > Events > bulk select all and delete… same for Organizers and Venues). Note that doing this before deleting the accompanying postmeta would leave orphaned postmeta.

Via the database, you’ll also want to delete all options with an option name starting with “tribe”.

After this, search anything with “tribe” in your entire database and handle that as you desire.

This may not be comprehensive but should be pretty close if it’s not.

Of course, we always recommend restorable database and file backups before modifying anything on your site.

Please let me know how this goes for you.

[Nicholas Turbanov]

Thanks Cliff,

Yeah this worked out pretty well. Note that tickets created with Event Tickets are kind of hard to access via the admin panel directly so I just deleted them straight from the db. That snippet in the link you posted for deleting all orphaned post meta is helpful too!

Thanks!

[Cliff]

Glad to hear. 🙂

Anything else I can help with on this topic?

[Nicholas Turbanov]

Nah, I’m good, thanks (sorry forgot to mark as resolved)!

[Cliff]

Glad to hear it!

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