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  • Started 10 months ago by crowdis
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  1. crowdis
    Member

    I'm just in the process of cleaning my site after a hack. I will wipe and completely re-install WP and all my other plugins in my home directory - including eStore and eMember plugin.

    My question: is there anything that I need to look out for in order to keep all the data (i.e. members and products) after re-installing them? Do these plugins keep all the data on the host database? Do I need to modify any files after the new installation in order to point the plugin to the existing product and member data?

    I would like to know these things before I go wiping everything of my home directory :)

    Thank you and I appreciate all the help you offer for these great plugins.

    Posted 10 months ago #

  2. crowdis
    Member

    Also, after re-installing is there any way to keep old settings for the plugins?

    Posted 10 months ago #

  3. amin007
    Key Master

    The product and customer related data is kept in the eStore tables that the plugin creates when you first install it. As long as you keep those tables there the data should be safe. The settings data is stored inside WordPress's options database table so if you wipe out that table then the settings will get reset.

    Posted 10 months ago #

  4. crowdis
    Member

    Ok I guess that means it will be save to wipe everything on the home directory, because it sounds like all the data and settings are kept in tables on the mySQL server. I won't be touching any of those tables because I want to keep them after I re-install WP.

    Once I re-install everything I will find out if it worked. Will I have to modify any of the plugin files to point to the old tables? Because if I re-install the plugins will they create new tables or would they check for pre-existing tables first?

    Posted 10 months ago #

  5. amin007
    Key Master

    Plugins will check for pre existing tables first. As long as you don't touch your database (for example: do not modify your database prefix or anything) you should be fine.

    Posted 10 months ago #

  6. crowdis
    Member

    Thank you very much for your help.

    Posted 10 months ago #

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