Delete a project

Remove a website from Needlr for good: its impact checks and data, and Needlr's tags in your Tag Manager.

Deleting a project removes one website from Needlr for good: its KPIs, impact checks, results and shared links. Needlr also takes its own tags out of your Tag Manager. There is no undo.

Think of moving out of a flat

Before you hand back the keys, you pack the things you want to keep. The landlord takes down his own fittings and leaves the rest of the building alone. Then you give back the key.

Deleting a project works the same way. You export your winners first. Needlr removes only what it put in your Tag Manager. Then it gives back its access to your Google account.

What is deleted

• The project's website, KPIs and impact checks, including any that are still running.
• All results and collected data. Shared links to its results stop working.
• This can't be undone. Not by you, and not by us.

What happens on your site

• Needlr removes its own tags, triggers and templates from your Tag Manager container and publishes that. Your other tags are never touched.
• Then it gives up its access to your Tag Manager, and to Google Analytics if it was connected. Your Google Analytics data itself stays in Google.
• Winners you shipped through Needlr disappear, because they run on those tags. Every visitor sees the original version again (move them into code first).
• The no-flicker line stays. If you added it to your site's <head>, remove it yourself. Needlr can't reach your site's code, and without Needlr the line makes pages wait up to a second before they show (more).

Before you delete

• Export your shipped winners: on the Shipped changes tab, press Export for your developer.
• Write down any results you want to keep. They go with the project.
• Just want Needlr off the site for now? Disconnecting may be enough (how).

How to delete a project

1. 1Open the project and go to the Settings tab. Scroll down to Delete this project and press Delete project. Or, on the Projects page, point at the project's card and press the bin in its corner.
2. 2Type the project's name exactly as shown. Delete forever only works when it matches.
3. 3Press Delete forever.
4. 4If the project is connected to Tag Manager, Needlr asks for your authenticator code, because it changes your live site. A code from the last 20 minutes still counts.

Only owners and editors can delete a project (roles). The demo project has its own Delete demo button; it never touched a real website or Tag Manager.

What you'll see

• The project disappears from your list right away. Needlr removes its tags and the data in the background.
• The Activity page records who deleted it and when.

If the deletion stops

Sometimes Tag Manager can't be cleaned up yet. Then the project comes back to the list with Deletion stopped and the reason. The project and its data are still there. For example:

• Someone has an unpublished version in Tag Manager. Publish or delete it in GTM, then delete the project again.
• Your GTM container has no free workspace (free accounts allow 3). Delete an unused workspace in GTM, then try again.

Common mistakes

• Deleting before exporting shipped winners. They vanish from your site at once.
• Deleting to make room for a new website. There's no need: every account can have as many projects as it needs. Just add a new one (plans).
• Forgetting the no-flicker line. It stays on your site until you remove it.
• Removing Needlr's tags in Tag Manager by hand first. Let Needlr do it: it knows exactly which ones are its own.