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How can I remove a user completely from the community portal?

Hi, I’d like to ask about how to completely remove a user from the entire FluentCommunity portal — not just from individual spaces.

Here’s the situation:

  • I mistakenly added some WordPress users as FluentCommunity members, even though they never agreed to join the community.
  • I would like to return to a state where these users are not considered community members, even though they still exist as WordPress users.
  • From the member page, I only see the option to "block" users, but this doesn’t seem to fully disconnect them from the community.
  • Ideally, I want to revert to the state right after installation — where WordPress users and community users were not yet connected.

Could you tell me:

  • How to remove or reset the community membership for specific users?
  • Is there a safe way to do this manually via the database, if there’s no UI option?
  • Any precautions I should take when doing this?

The reason for this is that we’d like users to explicitly opt-in to join the community, not be added automatically without consent.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

  • 2 comments

Mat ‎

Yuhei Kuwahata you can try to:

  • manually delete that user record from your db table:
wp_fcom_xprofile

I think you can also remove records from wp-users for:

community-events-location
wp_fcom_space_ids

Note: I am not sure if any other fComm related records you need to delete to make that user fComm profile completly clean but when when you delete that record from xprofile that should be fine (not perfect but fine).

Ref: https://github.com/WPManageNinja/fluent-community-docs/blob/master/database-schema.md#wp_fcom_xprofile

ps. it would be good to have this feature for the Admin in the Fluent Users settings (Active, Inactice, Blocked AND Completly Remove)

Yuhei Kuwahata

Mat ‎ 

Thanks a lot for the tip!

I followed your suggestion and deleted the records from xprofile and a few other tables — it worked great. I was able to fully disconnect some users from the community without touching their WordPress accounts.

Really appreciate you pointing me in the right direction. This was exactly what I needed!

And yeah, having a proper UI for this someday would be awesome. Hope they add it in the future!

Thanks again!