Title: Plugin not keeping settings
Last modified: June 19, 2023

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# Plugin not keeping settings

 *  Resolved [adejones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adejones/)
 * (@adejones)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-keeping-settings/)
 * I have a strange issue today on a site that has run this plugin for a long time.
   The settings seem to have cleared, in the dashboard my score is 45/505
 * I have a backup of my settings from the database so I have edited aio_wp_security_configs
   and pasted in the serialized data for the 113 settings, when I refresh the plugin
   dashboard the score goes back to 45/505 and in the database the data has reverted
   back to just a:1:{s:22:”aiowps_default_captcha”;s:4:”none”;}

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 *  Plugin Support [hjogiupdraftplus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hjogiupdraftplus/)
 * (@hjogiupdraftplus)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-keeping-settings/#post-16832400)
 * Hi [@adejones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adejones/)
 * It is strange issue and generally not the case. Below is the screen shot of one
   of my live site score / settings do not have any issue. It seems the settings
   saved in Database did not fetched first and just aiowps_default_captcha updated
   with.
 * [https://snipboard.io/OwlZCh.jpg](https://snipboard.io/OwlZCh.jpg)
 * If the issue repeated, Please cross heck Do you have any plugin which suppose
   to post back using ajax? or try disable recently added any plugin one by one 
   to know the conflict.
 * Also please cross check you do not have file storage or memory issue.
 * Regards
 *  Thread Starter [adejones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adejones/)
 * (@adejones)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-keeping-settings/#post-16833355)
 * This is sorted, it turns out when I was re-inserting the config in to the database
   via phpmyadmin there were line breaks where it was listing fie types to exclude
   in the scan, so it was invalid serialized data.
 *  Plugin Support [hjogiupdraftplus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hjogiupdraftplus/)
 * (@hjogiupdraftplus)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-keeping-settings/#post-16833376)
 * [@adejones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adejones/)
 * Ok

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 * Last reply from: [hjogiupdraftplus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hjogiupdraftplus/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-keeping-settings/#post-16833376)
 * Status: resolved