Delete pages created by plugin

  • I appreciate any help you might give me. I’m really confused about something really simple.

    I have been learning wp for a year and I am still confused about something very basic. Here’s the hypothetical scenario:
    1) I install a plugin to try out.
    2) That plugin creates 6 pages.
    3) I decide I don’t want to use that plugin.
    4) I delete the plugin and a dialog asks me if I want to delete all the files associated with that plugin and shows me a big long list of files it’s going to delete. (yes)
    5) I delete the plugin and all its related files.
    6) The 6 pages the plugin created are still there.

    Why haven’t the 6 pages been deleted? It seems that if the system can delete a long list of associated files it could just as easily delete the 6 pages it created. If I don’t want to use the plugin I certainly don’t want to use the 6 pages it created.

    What am I missing. I’m baffled…
    Thank you to all.

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  • Moderator cubecolour

    (@numeeja)

    The files referred to are the php (& other) files in the plugin folder. The pages are not files, they are stored in the database.

    The developer has probably made a choice to not delete them on uninstall, perhaps because people may have added other content to those pages. In this case requiring users to delete them manually would seem like a safer option.

    Thread Starter ZiggyBoy

    (@ziggyboy)

    Thanks for the reply cubecolor.

    I guess I still don’t understand why if the page is stored in the database when I create it, it isn’t deleted from the database when I delete it.

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