Deactivation Looses Posts or Pages Using Custom Status

First I want to say that I am using this plugin and it works well with no problems at this time.

Yet, I do believe others need to know about one short-coming this plugin has.

I have tried other plugins that perform this same function of creating custom statuses for posts or pages. Each of them, and this plugin here, all suffer the same problem or short-coming.

That short-coming is when the plugin is deactivated for any reason or if someone deletes the plugin without being aware of this issue, all posts or pages that are set to a custom status will disappear from the Admin area.

Those pages or posts will not be retrievable unless their status is changed back to any one of the default statuses given by WordPress, and there are only two ways to do this.

1. Going into the Data Base and manually changing it there, or…
2. Reactivating this plugin to get those pages or posts back to visibility in the Admin area, then changing their statuses to a WordPress default status.

So this is more a FYI post about it so people need to be aware of this issue any time they change, remove or deactivate this plugin.