Hi @oriver,
Yep, that should work.
Note though that popularpoststransients is not a table created by WordPress Popular Posts. The only tables created by WPP are the first two (“summary” and “data”). Was that a typo?
I wanted to make sure that when we launch we don’t compromise performance (…)
You may have read this already but if not then it might be a good idea checking it out before launch: Performance Suggestions and Recommendations.
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oriver
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Hi @hcabrera
Thank you for your help.
No that wasn’t a typo. That’s a bit suspicious then, will take a backup and delete. Thank you again
No that wasn’t a typo. That’s a bit suspicious then, will take a backup and delete.
Don’t worry about it. As it happens I was working on the plugin earlier today and saw that there was indeed a time when WPP created that database table on first activation. Later on I determined that it wasn’t useful so I removed it from the plugin shortly after.
It’s been a long time since then so I had completely forgotten about it 😛 Sorry about that!
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oriver
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Hi @hcabrera
Oh that’s great, so I should be okay to delete it then?
Yeah, that table is not in use anymore (I’m assuming here you’re using the latest version of the plugin of course) so you can delete it safely.
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oriver
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@hcabrera
Thanks deleted it no problem, and your plugin still works perfectly, thank you.
Hi @oriver,
I’m sorry, I was wrong when I said that the popularpoststransients database table is not being used anymore. It is still being used by the plugin. I just completely forgot about it (as I said above), except I never really deleted it. I was thinking of a different table that did get removed from the plugin at some point, hence the confusion.
If you’re not using the Data Caching feature on your website then you don’t need this table and you don’t need to do anything about it. However if you are using it then the table must be present for the Data Caching feature to work, see wp_popularpoststransients database error.
