plugins leftover marked “unknown”

  • anonymized-14293447

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    8 years, 2 months ago

    Unfortunately I have to give it one star. The idea behind this plugin is is ingenious because, if compared to other “database-optimize-clean” plugins where you actually start the process of cleaning blindly, this is the only one that allows you to check the original source of the orphaned tables. But does it? In my case the source was detected as “unknown”, therefore it spoiled the possibility to clean only what I needed to clean.

    UPDATE: Almost 4 years later I’m testing this plugin again. The problem I mentioned is still there, but I’ll raise some stars because I think it’s fair enough to say that it does scan the database without errors.

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  • I agree at some point, however I worked around it by having a solid backup. I did delete some tables that should not be deleted in the ‘unknown” section, but was able to restore in minutes with my back up.

    If you clean not all at once, you can find out which “unknowns” you should not delete and which one you should delete in my case.

    Thread Starter anonymized-14293447

    (@anonymized-14293447)

    yes, but your approach is kind of trial-and-errors, which is not so smart when dealing with databases. Moreover, you must agree with me that issues related to wrongly deleted tables might not rise immediately… it might take weeks before you discover them, or they might come out only as you update anything. So I believe this work around doesn’t save GarbageCollector. ??

    Correct it is trial and error. Must say, I now cleaned up several sites, just one large one had this issue and was solved with a back up. If later things would come up, I always have backups to restore as well.

    After these clean ups my sites ( and even the admin dashboard ) are much faster to load.
    Having a solution without any risc would be great, but have not found one yet unfortunattely. Did you find another one?

    Thread Starter anonymized-14293447

    (@anonymized-14293447)

    I haven’t found a solution. It’s really surprising to me that the WP community hasn’t addressed this “left-over” problem and that nobody is building a proper plugin to solve it. I believe there should be a sort of mandatory check that any plugin should have a proper uninstall system, since I’m learning that very few has.
    No uninstall? No approval from WP!

    Yep, ofcourse there are a lot of free plugins that work just fine, but do not have a complet de-install option. It would be great if all of them had it.

    Ofcourse we can do a lot to prevent clutter from piling up, by only trying out new plugins in a staging site and not in a live site. That way we only keep the ones we really like and need and it leaves no clutter of all the trials we deinstalled.

    Lets hope this becomes a criteria to get approved!

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by LogoLogics.
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