SERIOUS ISSUE: Abandoned Data!

  • This plugin has a serious issue, when I uninstalled this plugin and checked the database, I found lots of data belonging to this plugin remains in wordpress tables.

    Then If I reinstall your plugin, I have nothing to configure and your plugin uses previously abandoned data for plugin settings and also if I go to edit a post, tweet history also there.

    Remaining data includes:

    • Twitter Keys
    • Each and every tweet URL generated by your plugin

    This is a serious issue, please don’t abandon data after uninstalling your plugin.

    Please make a fix for this issue

    • This topic was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by onlanka.
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  • Plugin Contributor Jeffrey Paul

    (@jeffpaul)

    @onlanka this was a purposeful decision to keep that data to protect for cases where folks, like you, have prior tweet history that would ideally be kept in scenarios where a plugin is uninstalled and then reinstalled later. We could perhaps look at an option to allow site owners to forcefully remove that data during uninstallation, but would probably not default to that behavior.

    Thread Starter onlanka

    (@onlanka)

    @jeffpaul Yes please make it as an option with warnings (If needed) for people who need to remove abandoned data completely.

    Thank you!

    Hi @jeffpaul thank you! But maybe a good thing would be to include at plugin config a select button that would say: “Yes, unistall all plugin config and options when unistalling” and if selected, user knows all data will be deleted after unistalling. If is not selected, then maybe is for repairing plugin (unistalla/install) and so nothing is deleted. Many plugins have this option. Thanks once more.

    +1 on this as we have a huge site online for 20 years and using WP since v1.6, so being able to fully remove ‘all data’ from plugin on uninstally is kinda critical and generally ‘good behavior’ for any plugin adding data tables to the dbase.

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