I tried to remove a forum that wasn't being used and ended up with no forum! - How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-tried-to-remove-a-forum-that-wasnt-being-used-and-ended-up-with-no-forum/ Discussion Board en-US Fri, 15 May 2026 07:53:25 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: I tried to remove a forum that wasn't being used and ended up with no forum! https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-tried-to-remove-a-forum-that-wasnt-being-used-and-ended-up-with-no-forum/#post-85210 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 21:47:07 +0000 btw: this MUST be removed totally.

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]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 dimalifragis https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-tried-to-remove-a-forum-that-wasnt-being-used-and-ended-up-with-no-forum/#post-85210 RE: I tried to remove a forum that wasn't being used and ended up with no forum! https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-tried-to-remove-a-forum-that-wasnt-being-used-and-ended-up-with-no-forum/#post-85207 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 21:24:50 +0000 How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 dimalifragis https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-tried-to-remove-a-forum-that-wasnt-being-used-and-ended-up-with-no-forum/#post-85207 RE: I tried to remove a forum that wasn't being used and ended up with no forum! https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-tried-to-remove-a-forum-that-wasnt-being-used-and-ended-up-with-no-forum/#post-85204 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 16:56:40 +0000 Specifically what files do I need to recover?

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 seanislavski https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-tried-to-remove-a-forum-that-wasnt-being-used-and-ended-up-with-no-forum/#post-85204 RE: I tried to remove a forum that wasn't being used and ended up with no forum! https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-tried-to-remove-a-forum-that-wasnt-being-used-and-ended-up-with-no-forum/#post-85198 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:13:20 +0000 Hi @seanislavski,

You can get the backup from your hosting.

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 Chris https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-tried-to-remove-a-forum-that-wasnt-being-used-and-ended-up-with-no-forum/#post-85198 I tried to remove a forum that wasn't being used and ended up with no forum! https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-tried-to-remove-a-forum-that-wasnt-being-used-and-ended-up-with-no-forum/#post-85159 Sat, 28 Jan 2023 20:35:55 +0000 I had two forums and they were being used regularly until about 6 months ago when they stopped being used abruptly and altogether. 

I thought there was something wrong with user registration and yesterday was able to test with a user, and they were successful but I believe that is because they registered a long time ago. 

Then comes the big problem. I had originally created 2 forums - body-double-seekers and hobby-jumpers but after around 2 years I noticed that the 'hobby-jumpers' one was not really used (it had 2 posts) where the other forum was regularly used until 6 months ago. 

So - I tried to remove the 'hobby-jumpers' to clean things up, but in the process ended up somehow with no forum. Now the 'Forum Slug' is 'body-double-seekers-2' because I recreated 'body-double-seekers' but it must have known the previous one - it doesn't let me erase the 2 and save. 

What can I do to get back what was lost? Where does WPforo store the forum data? How do I correct it?

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 seanislavski https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-tried-to-remove-a-forum-that-wasnt-being-used-and-ended-up-with-no-forum/#post-85159