Clean Database after delete Rankmath

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out to Rank Math support.

It sounds like you want to completely remove Rank Math from your site and clean your database of any traces of the plugin. If that’s the case, here’s what you need to do:

1. First, make sure Rank Math is still active on your site before you proceed.
2. Next, add a small piece of code to your site that will tell Rank Math to erase all its data when you uninstall & delete it. You can copy and paste this code:

   /**
    * Filter to remove Rank Math data from the database
    */
   add_filter( 'rank_math_clear_data_on_uninstall', '__return_true' );

   If you’re not sure how to add the code, please check out this guide: https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

3. Then, go to your WordPress dashboard and uninstall and delete the Rank Math plugin as usual. This will trigger the code to run and wipe out everything related to Rank Math from your database.
4. Finally, you can remove the code from your site if you don’t need it anymore.

We hope this helps you achieve what you want. If you have any other questions or issues, please let us know. We’re always happy to help.

Thank you for choosing Rank Math!

Hello,

In this case, the process becomes manual and quite cumbersome but we can gladly provide the places where the data is saved.

1. The options are all saved in the default options table and are all prefixed by rank-math so you could potentially create an SQL query to look for those words using the %LIKE% operator and delete those.

2. All the tables for our plugin start with rank_math so if you see any tables in the database with those names they can be deleted.

3. As for the postmeta data, you need to find the entries in the respective tables (post, user, term) and use the same SQL query we mentioned in #1 to get the data from our plugin to delete from those 3 tables.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.