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Does anyone use WordPress?

Does anyone use WordPress Plugins?

How do I reset a plug in?

I got a plug-in for wordpress which bridges a link between wordpress and mybb.

The problem is this. After I finally got the right settings put in, it is kind of stuck. Where it says (unavailable) for the name of the forum, I cannot change it and so it will not accept the input.

So how do I uninstall and uninstalled plugin?

I am in limbo. I cannot complete the setting up of a plug in and I cannot uninstall the plug-in. There is a bug in the dashbord configuration of the plug in and it will not let me continue putting in the right input fields. Now that I know the correct input to put in, I need to restart the process.

But the plug in is not in my list of installed plug ins. So I cannot delete it and restart it.

What do I do?

I tried ftp'ing to the web site and deleting the plug in folder and that seemed for a moment to be the corrrect choice. But when I got to the options dashboard for the plug-in, it was still in this limbo state where the fields that I needed to imput were shown by a character string "(unavailable)".

Clearly, this is a no-brainer for you if you are an experienced wordpress user and have used a lot of plug ins (which I am not). Please help.

What I fear I might need to do is to either step into the PHP code (ugh!) or open up my MySql tables and try to guess on what entries I should delete to force a reset somehow (ugh!).

 

This first thing is to google the plug-in name + keywords related to your error. If you are having this issue there is a good chance other people have as well and you may find your answer there.

Also, see if there is any support at the plug-in page. Look through any bugs listed or post this one if necessary.

If that leads to no where you can try removing the plug-in with ftp, download a fresh copy, and re-install. You may want to disable your other plug-ins if you think there is a conflict. Other than that it sounds like a hack job where you will need to look at the database a bit.

 

Not all plugins have proper uninstallation routines, often leaving tables and option rows in the database. You'll have to look at the plugin source to see what exactly it adds, and remove it yourself via phpmyadmin.

 

I deleted the folder.
I found the table in the database that must be the one used and I dumped that.
I logged onto the admin and it looked promising.
I reinstalled the plugin and it said I needed to adjust the settings.
But when I went to that dashboard it had the old settings that got me into the jam in the first place. Where is this data stored?

I have been trying to contact the author of the plug-in. Nothing yet.

 

Plugin settings are usually in the wp_options table, prefixed by the plugin name, or something similar, so say you have a plugin called digital point and an option for a username, it might be digital_point_username, dp_username or something like that. If you query your database for a value used by that plugin that is quite unique you should be able to find it (it will be in the option_value column)