recent changes to Category settings not carried across a database restore

  • Resolved flymike

    (@flymike)


    10 years, 6 months ago

    I’m planning to migrate a blog to a new provider, but I have noticed that any recent changes made to Post Category Feeds & Front/Home page settings do not appear after backing up the database (all of it) and restoring at the new location. WordPress code is identical at both locations.
    Are some settings not stored in the database?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/simply-exclude/

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  • Plugin Author Paul Menard

    (@pmenard)

    @flymike,

    I can’t address what you are doing with the backups, etc.

    The Simply Exclude stores the settings into the WordPress options table. The option_name for the row is ‘simplyexclude_v2’.

    Thread Starter flymike

    (@flymike)

    Thanks for that. I confirmed that the database backup includes wp_options.
    So I wrote a quick plugin to dump the unserialize of get_option(‘simplyexclude_v2’) and found the version on the target was smaller than the source (presumaby my recently added settings were missing).
    Then I noticed that the old version key ‘simplyexclude’ was also in wp_options, so I deleted (actually renamed) that key. Repeated the backup and restore sequence, and… ALL IS WELL!
    I can’t explain this – but I would like to leave the old version key deleted. Is there any dependency on it in 2.0.6.1?

    Plugin Author Paul Menard

    (@pmenard)

    @flymike,

    I can’t explain this – but I would like to leave the old version key deleted. Is there any dependency on it in 2.0.6.1?

    No. When 2.0 came out is when I added the ‘simplyexclude_v2’. You are seeing the older version ‘simplyexclude’ because you were probably running a version prior to 2.0. Thanks for that.

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