Options remain when AIOWPS suppressed?

  • Resolved fermanus

    (@fermanus)


    7 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    I made a mistake when loging in, and as I had activated the “instantly lock out when wrong user name is used for login” I logically found myself locked out of my site. I used FTP to inactivate the plugin, could get in, reactivated, deleted the blocked ip address and then could not log out. This was the beginning of a series of problems and I finally decided to uninstall/re-install AIOWPS. I was ready to import the settings I saved some time ago but to my surprise they were already there, which in this case was very convenient! However, I would like to understand how it is possible that all settings are being saved when suppressing (not inactivating) the plugin. I assumed that they would be deleted from the DB. Isn’t it the case?
    Thanks for explaining this to me.

    Regards

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  • Plugin Contributor wpsolutions

    (@wpsolutions)

    Hi @fermanus,
    The aiowps settings are saved in the WordPress “options” table, under the option name “aio_wp_security_configs”.

    When you deactivate this plugin those settings are still in the options table and are available for use next time you activate the plugin.
    If you wanted to start your installation from scratch, you could always delete the “aio_wp_security_configs” row in the options table and then re-configure the plugin again.

    Thread Starter fermanus

    (@fermanus)

    Hi,

    Thanks for the information.

    1. I knew that settings were saved in the database upon deactivation but I was a little bit surprised to see this is still the case upon suppression (i.e when the AIOWPS folder is deleted from the WPcontents/plugin folder). So is it right to say there is no real difference between “deactivate” and “suppress” in the case of AIOWPS?

    2. By the way, except for the 5 (or 6 in my case) specific AIOWPS tables and the row you mentionned above are there other places in the database where AIOWPS appears.

    I have no problem with the plugin which works just fine. This is just for my understanding.
    Thanks a lot for informing me.

    Regards.

    Plugin Contributor mbrsolution

    (@mbrsolution)

    @fermanus, there are no more tables added to the database. Ultimately you could use the following plugin all-in-one-wp-security-reset-settings-plugin to totally remove any trace of the plugin if you don’t like meddling with your server.

    If this answers all your questions you can mark this support thread as resolved.

    Thank you

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by mbrsolution.
    Plugin Contributor wpsolutions

    (@wpsolutions)

    Hi,

    So is it right to say there is no real difference between “deactivate” and “suppress” in the case of AIOWPS?

    When you rename or delete the folder of this plugin, this does not have any effect on the contents of the DB, ie, the settings and tables which this plugin created will not be affected because you are making a change to the filesystem and not the database.

    except for the 5 (or 6 in my case) specific AIOWPS tables and the row you mentionned above are there other places in the database where AIOWPS appears

    Yes this plugin creates 6 tables in addition to the options settings.
    There will also be other entries for transients and plugin version etc.

    Thread Starter fermanus

    (@fermanus)

    Hi,

    Thank you very much for the information. I have no more questions regarding this topic. I was just wondering what the difference was between deactivating and suppressing from the WP dashboard and I got the answer.

    Regards.

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