---
title: How to completely uninstall SEOPress
url: "https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/uninstall-seopress/"
lang: en-US
updated: 2026-04-14
---

# How to completely uninstall SEOPress

You want to remove SEOPress Free / PRO / Insights from your WordPress site? Follow this step by step guide.

## Recommended method

### SEOPress Free/PRO

Simply add this line of code to your `wp-config.php` file to delete automatically everything from your database (Free + PRO), then **follow steps 1-5**.

```
define('SEOPRESS_UNINSTALL', true );
```

### SEOPress Insights

Use this define for SEOPress Insights (v3 required):

```
define('SEOPRESS_INSIGHTS_UNINSTALL', true);
```

## Manual method

### SEOPress Free/PRO

1. **Run a full backup (database + files) of your site: safety first!**
2. Go to your **WordPress** admin, **Plugins**.
3. Select **SEOPress Free** / **PRO** from the list and click **Deactivate** from the **bulk actions** select.
4. Now the plugins are deactivated, **select them again**, and choose **Delete** from the **bulk actions**.
5. “Are you sure you want to delete the selected plugins and their data?”, click **OK**.
6. To remove SEOPress’ entries from your database, open this one using PhpMyAdmin (or equivalent).
7. Search for entries starting by `seopress_` in `wp_postmeta` and `wp_options` tables.
8. Select the entries found and **delete** them.
9. Delete `wp_seopress_significant_keywords` table.
10. That’s it!

### SEOPress Insights

1. **Run a full backup (database + files) of your site: safety first!**
2. Go to your **WordPress** admin, **Plugins**.
3. Select **SEOPress Insights** from the list and click **Deactivate**.
4. “Are you sure you want to delete the selected plugins and their data?”, click **OK**.
5. To remove SEOPress’ Insights entries from your database, open this one using PhpMyAdmin (or equivalent).
6. Search for entries starting by `seopress_insights_` in `wp_postmeta` and `wp_options` tables.
7. Also search for the entry `seopress_backlinks_data` in the `wp_postmeta` table.
8. Select the entries found and delete them.
9. In the `wp_posts` table, delete all entries where post\_type is `seopress_rankings`, `seopress_backlinks` or `seopress_p1_rankings` (and their associated wp\_postmeta rows).
10. Delete the following custom tables:
  - `wp_seopress_insights_backlinks`
  - `wp_seopress_insights_rankings`
  - `wp_seopress_insights_metrics`
11. That’s it!