delete transient that doesn’t expire

  • Hello,
    I need help with something, I haven’t find a solution anywhere.
    I deleted a transient created from an instagram plugin that was set to never expire. Maybe I shouldn’t but I did it thinking that it would force the plugin to refresh. The problem is that now I can’t use this option of the plugin, it’s not working! To be more precise, for this instagram plugin I deleted the transient created for my @username. I noticed that the transients that were created for #hashtags are there and working fine, but it looks like it can’t create transients for @usernames anymore? I don’t know if that makes sense.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated as I haven’t had any like with the plugin builder.

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  • Same problem here I think its a bug, instead of deleting them it removes data and changes their status to do not expire. As well not all transients are shown in the list, when you search you find a lot more. I don’t understand why it is so upvoted. Because it is not working.

    Plugin Contributor Pippin Williamson

    (@mordauk)

    That sounds like a bug in the Instagram plugin.

    When you click “Delete” on a transient in Transient Manager, it will delete the record from the database completely without any knowledge of what that data is used for. A lot of times, plugins (such as this Instagram plugin) that rely on transients will automatically re-create transients they are storing data in if they do not exist.

    I suspect the Instagram plugin is automatically re-creating the transient but is not properly refreshing the value (data stored) of the transient.

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