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Getting rid of all activity before I go live


  • rossagrant
    Participant

    @rossagrant

    Hi guys,
    I’m due to launch my site very soon but obviously through creating it I have lots of redundant activity now from test posts, test topics, test members etc. Can I safely delete the content in the activity tables in my DB or is that dangerous. What is the safest way to effectively launch a clean site?

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  • Boone Gorges
    Keymaster

    @boonebgorges

    The safest way is to go through the UI on the front end and manually delete all the content items (forum posts, etc) and activity items, and then to delete all the test members from the Dashboard. I don’t suggest selective deletion directly from the database unless you really know what you’re doing.

    Or you could go with a fresh install, by dropping all the tables in your installation, clearing your .htaccess and wp-config.php files, and going through the WP setup process again. You’ll also want to remove user-specific data like avatars, which on WPMU are in blogs.dir. As long as you don’t delete any plugin or theme files, you should be able to recreate your site pretty quickly – though your settings will be lost in the process, and will have to be recreated.


    rossagrant
    Participant

    @rossagrant

    Hey Boone,
    I have made over 1500 groups during setup so the activity list is LOOONNNGGG! I had a little play and found that you could safely delete bp activity entries directly from the DB.
    I ended up going the whole hog and ticked all the entries in the end and did one BIG delete of over 3000 entries.

    All went well and the activity on the site is nice and empty, ready for the fun to begin.

    So yeah, just wanted to let you know that it is safe to do.
    Cheers
    Ross :)

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