Reinstall the plugin without losing settings

  • Resolved Angelo Mariani

    (@mistermagoo8691)


    2 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Joe. My maps are not showing the attributions anymore, and in the past you suggested me to delete & reinstall the plugin. I’ve never done it: after trying it in the staging area, I’ve noticed that the issue is actually fixed but some of the settings are lost after the plugin installation (e.g. all maps needs to be reconfigured)

    Is there any easy way to export the settings, so that I can re-import them after reinstalling the plugin? If not, I will take a screenshot of all the settings and re-enter them one by one.

    THX in advance!
    Bye, A.-

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)
  • Thread Starter Angelo Mariani

    (@mistermagoo8691)

    2 years, 9 months ago

    (deleted)

    Plugin Author Joe

    (@morehawes)

    2 years, 9 months ago

    Hi @mistermagoo8691,

    I’m sorry to hear you are experiencing issues with this :-/ As previously mentioned, I believe your Settings have been corrupted due to an old bug in Waymark.

    The Settings are stored in your WordPress settings table under the key Waymark_Settings and should look something like this. The Settings have been encoded, but the bug in question allowed some special characters in (like quotation marks) which breaks the encoding and corrupts the Settings. If you take a look at your settings I believe they may look a bit “scrambled”.

    Waymark does backup Settings (as of version 0.9.17 I believe) which are also stored in the database, which you can find with a SQL query like:

    SELECT *
    FROM wp_options
    WHERE option_name LIKE 'Waymark_Settings%'

    You may find a backup that has not yet been corrupted.

    As this involves digging in your database I believe removing the settings and starting over (using the exact same Titles) would be easier.

    Feel free to post a link to your encoded settings (like I have above) if you would like me to take a look for you.

    Cheers,

    Joe

    Thread Starter Angelo Mariani

    (@mistermagoo8691)

    2 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks Joe for the hint, but in the weekend I “grasped the nettle”: I reinstalled everything & re-entered the whole settings (which I previously copied/pasted in an Excel file 🙂
    Now everything works as a charm!
    Thansk again & bye!
    A.-

    Plugin Author Joe

    (@morehawes)

    2 years, 9 months ago

    Nice!

    Joe

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

The topic ‘Reinstall the plugin without losing settings’ is closed to new replies.