Easily Reset WordPress Database

WordPress Database Reset is a WordPress plugin I recently came across that will at some point prove very, very useful to me.

It’s not often that I need to reset a production WordPress database to it’s default settings, but this plugin will make the task a whole lot easier. Chris Berthe, the author, describes the plugin like this:

WordPress Database Reset is a secure and easy way to reinitialize your WordPress database back to its default settings without actually having to reinstall WordPress yourself.

I can see this being crazy useful for WordPress plugin and theme developers. We frequently need a fresh database to work with, so I’ll be adopting this plugin in my WordPress plugin and theme development workflow from here on.

WordPress Database Reset requires WordPress 3.0+ and can be installed just like any other WordPress plugin. It’s in the WordPress Plugin directory, and can also be found on GitHub.

It even integrates with WP-CLI, a command line tool for interacting with WordPress. This allows you to do things like select which tables you want to reset:

wp reset database --tables='users, posts, comments, options'

Here’s a list of features:

• Extremely fast one click process to reset the WordPress database
• Choose to reset the entire database or specific database tables
• Secure and super simple to use
• Prefer the command line? Reset the database in one command
• Excellent for theme and plugin developers who need to clean the database of any unnecessary content quickly

If you’re a WordPress theme or plugin developer, you should definitely check it out.