How to remove unwanted Custom Field in WordPress

Warning: Back up your database and your entire WordPress website before proceeding. I am no way to be held accountable for you breaking your website.

This is the trick I used with my 1and1 hosted WordPress hosted website. I found this method mentioned with no detail after spending forty minutes looking for a way to delete a misspelled Custom Field.

1. Go to your database’s phpmyadmin.
2. In the left column look for “wp_postmeta”
3. Click on Browse at the top of the page.
4. Find the Sort by key: drop-down menu and choose “option_name (ascending)” or “option_name (descending)”
5. Under the “option_name” column, look for the name of the Custom Field that you want want to delete.
6. Click the red X in that row to delete the Custom Field. Repeat for each instance of that particular Custom Field you wish to get rid of.
7. In WordPress, open up a new post and scroll down to Custom Fields. Look in the drop down menu to make sure that Custom Field is now gone.