Is it better to Reinstall or Reset your WordPress Site?

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Are you a WordPress user? If yes, proud yourself because WordPress runs 35% of the entire internet and you are also a part of it. 

According to the latest stats, WordPress holds more than 60% share of the global CMS market making it the most popular CMS of them all for the 7th year in a row.

The keyword “WordPress” gets googled around 2.8 million times every month. World’s largest websites including CNN, TED, Fortune.com, TIME.com, TechCrunch, NBS and a lot powered by WordPress.

Major versions of WordPress get released every 152 days on average. If you are running a small personal WordPress Blog or a large business one, you might be forced to reinstall WordPress if you ever failed to troubleshoot errors. 

If you ever want to start your WordPress site from the beginning, you have 2 options to get started. Reinstalling WordPress or Reset it. Let’s check the difference between reinstalling a WordPress site and resetting a site.  

Reinstall WordPress

  • You can do a reinstall within your site dashboard.
  • You have the option to uninstall and reinstall your site through FTP or through web hosting.
  • You don’t have the option to delete only plugins and themes.
  • Reinstalling through Web Hosting is a time killer

Reset WordPress

  • One Plugin like WP Reset will take care of all
  • One-click reset and you will get a completely new site
  • You have the option to delete all themes and plugins only in one click.
  • It speeds up testing and debugging by providing a quick way to reset settings

What do we Recommend?

We recommend doing WordPress Reset because resetting through a Plugin gives you a more customized option rather than a traditional uninstalling and reinstall. WP Reset Plugin comes with a post-reset set up so you won’t need to manually set options or reactivate plugins and themes after a successful reset. 

If you are doing a manual reinstall or an advanced reset using plugins, better to take a complete site backup before proceeding with it.