Freshly Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
Get a brand new WordPress site back in seconds — without losing your login.
Testing a plugin, building a client demo, or just experimenting? Over time your site fills up with
old plugins, unused themes, and clutter you no longer need. Starting over usually means deleting
everything and setting up a new site from scratch — new database, new wp-config.php, new admin
account, new login.
Freshly makes it effortless. One click and your site is a fresh WordPress install again — same domain,
same database credentials, same table prefix, same admin account, same browser session. You stay
logged in the whole time, with nothing new to set up.
Why people use Freshly
- Local and staging environments — reset between client demos or between experiments instead of
spinning up a whole new site. - Plugin and theme developers — test your install and activation flow against a genuinely clean
WordPress, over and over, in seconds. - Agencies — hand a clean starting point to the next person on the team without touching hosting,
DNS, or database configuration. - Anyone learning WordPress — break things freely, then undo everything at once.
Simple Reset
One click, one confirmation. Freshly:
- Deletes every plugin (except itself) and every theme.
- Permanently empties the media library and
wp-content/uploads. - Drops every database table and reinstalls the WordPress database with
wp_install()— the exact
routine behind the famous 5-minute install. - Reinstalls WordPress core files from the official WordPress.org package.
- Installs and activates one official default theme, so your front end never goes down.
- Restores the admin account you were logged in as — same username, same password, same session.
When it finishes, you are looking at a brand new WordPress site, still logged in.
Advanced Reset
Need something narrower? Advanced Reset lets you pick each target independently:
- Plugins — deletes every plugin except Freshly itself. Optionally reinstalls Akismet and Hello
Dolly, the two plugins bundled with every fresh WordPress download. - Themes — deletes every installed theme and installs one official default theme you choose
(Twenty Twenty-Five, Twenty Twenty-Four, Twenty Twenty-Three, and so on). - Media / Uploads — permanently empties
wp-content/uploads. - WordPress (core + database) — reinstalls core files and drops and reinstalls the database. Pick a
specific WordPress version from a dropdown sourced from the official wordpress.org release list — handy
for reproducing a bug against an older release. Your admin account is preserved exactly as in Simple
Reset.
Uncheck everything you want to keep. A themes-only reset leaves your database untouched; a media-only
reset leaves your plugins alone.
Built on WordPress’s own machinery
Freshly does not download and unzip code by hand, and it does not ship a bundled copy of WordPress.
Every install goes through the same upgrader classes WordPress uses for its own screens:
- Default themes are installed from the official wordpress.org Theme Directory through
Theme_Upgrader
— the same mechanism as Appearance Themes Add New. - WordPress core is reinstalled through
Core_Upgrader, the same mechanism behind
Dashboard Updates “Re-install Now”, sourced from the official wordpress.org update API. - Akismet and Hello Dolly are installed from the official wordpress.org Plugin Directory through
Plugin_Upgrader — the same mechanism as Plugins Add New.
Important safety notes
- Freshly does not create a backup. Everything you select is permanently deleted. Take your own
backup first if there is any chance you will want the current content back. - Resetting WordPress (core + database) removes every other user account — only the admin account you
are currently logged in as survives (row, password hash, and session are copied over to the fresh
install’s admin). - Running a reset requires the
manage_optionscapability, a valid nonce, and typing your site’s domain
name into the confirmation field. There is no way to trigger it by accident or from the front end. - Freshly is built for development and staging. Think carefully before installing it on a production
site.
Third-Party Services
This plugin connects to one external service during a reset:
- WordPress.org (
api.wordpress.org,downloads.wordpress.org) — to check available WordPress
versions, download core packages, and download default themes and plugins (Twenty* themes, Akismet,
Hello Dolly). This uses the same APIs as WordPress itself (Dashboard Updates, Plugins Add New,
Appearance Themes Add New). Terms of Use |
Privacy Policy
No data about your site, your users, or your content is ever sent to any external service. Freshly has no
analytics, no tracking, no telemetry, and no calls home.
Screenshots
Simple Reset — one-click full site reset with confirmation. Everything gets wiped and reinstalled.
Advanced Reset — choose exactly what to reset. Each target (Plugins, Themes, Media, WordPress) can be toggled independently.
