{"id":1904,"date":"2018-12-31T05:50:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T05:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=1904"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:43:12","slug":"how-to-remove-a-installation","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/docs\/enduser\/miscellaneous\/how-to-remove-a-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"How to remove a installation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This page will help you to remove an installation of a script. (for eg. To remove an installation of&nbsp;<strong>WordPress<\/strong>&nbsp;just follow the steps given below to you)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) Click on the&nbsp;<strong>Red Icon<\/strong>&nbsp;button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/remove_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"891\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/remove_1-891x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/remove_1-891x1024.png 891w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/remove_1-261x300.png 261w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/remove_1-768x882.png 768w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/remove_1.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 891px) 100vw, 891px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>2) After clicking on the&nbsp;<strong>Red Icon&nbsp;<\/strong>button you will be redirected to the page where you can remove an installation. If you wish to keep the&nbsp;<strong>Installation Directory, Database and Database User<\/strong>&nbsp;for that Installation uncheck the respective boxes. Now click on the&nbsp;<strong>Remove Installation<\/strong>&nbsp;button to remove the installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/remove_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"911\" src=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/remove_2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/remove_2.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/remove_2-300x273.png 300w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/remove_2-768x700.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":1682,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","docs_category":[],"class_list":["post-1904","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4825,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1904\/revisions\/4825"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"docs_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs_category?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}