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Fluent Community - Clean Reinstall?

I've been experimenting with, and learning, Fluent Community. It's awesome. Now it's time to set up a real community and get into business.

I'm looking to tips/guidance on how to do a clean reinstall so that I can rebuild a community from scratch. (There are a few groups created that I can't delete). Deleting and reinstalling the plugin doesn't clear out the old database.

I thought I'd ask here first before submitting a ticket incase other community members have experience with this.

Thoughts, suggestions, instructions, please?

Mat β€Ž

Donald BackΒ you can manually remove all fComm tables from your DB and then you can start fresh with this fCommunity plugin.

Currently there is no other fComm native way to reset the fCommunity (unless you have your Wordpress backup from before - but this is something else then fCommunity funcionality).

Fluent Community has a separate db tables so they can be easily deleted (I hope you know what you are doing - always create some backups).

List of DB wp_fcom tables:

`wp_fcom_chat_messages`, 
`wp_fcom_chat_threads`, 
`wp_fcom_chat_thread_users`, 
`wp_fcom_media_archive`,
`wp_fcom_meta`, 
`wp_fcom_notifications`, 
`wp_fcom_notification_users`, 
`wp_fcom_posts`, 
`wp_fcom_post_comments`, 
`wp_fcom_post_reactions`, 
`wp_fcom_spaces`, 
`wp_fcom_space_user`, 
`wp_fcom_terms`, 
`wp_fcom_term_feed`, 
`wp_fcom_user_activities`, 
`wp_fcom_xprofile`;

To detete fComm tables just log-in to your WP Database.

If you have PHPMyAdmin (PMA) with your Database (DB) then try access link: yourDomain.com/phpmyadmin and see if there is the DB login form but in most cases you can find your DB link in your hosting console.

DB User name, Password and also DB Name can be taken from the wp-config.php file (you have different credentials to DB than to your hosting console)

Once logged in to your DB > find your DB Name and click on it > find all fComm DB tables: `wpfcom........`, and delete them.

Ref: link

Donald Back

Mat, thank you. I encountered some futz-up in a groups/spaces that couldn't be deleted. I was hoping there was a more elegant approach to doing a clean re-install. However, this should get me to where I want to be. Thank you - Don

Jose Luis Duron

This is a GREAT feature that I think should be implemented.

I suggest you to add it as a #FeatureRequest on the roadmap, so we can upvote it.

Ross FCA

I'll put together a very quick standalone plugin to handle this. You can take full control of all fluentcommunity content.

Donald Back

Ross HΒ Thank you. That will be very handy! I love the WP Ninja products and can tolerate the inevitable challenges that can arise with new software. It is well worth it overall.

Please let me know when it is available.

Ross FCA

Donald BackΒ Here's a first draft, still has some bugs and debug code going on but thought I'd share for you to test. https://acamedia.uk/fce-content-manager-1.0.0.zip

Use the Content Manager to see all of your available content and delete anything that's been left behind.

Donald Back

Ross, Thank you. That plugin worked perfectly to delete the two marooned course spaces. It delivered exactly what I needed.

Ross FCA

Donald BackΒ thats great news, glad to have helped :)