Understanding Post Content and Media Storage Behavior in Dashboard Websites

  • Resolved Alexandre

    (@videorecover)


    1 year, 1 month ago


    Hello there!

    I wanted to commend you on your excellent plugin – it’s been a great addition to my website!

    I have a straightforward question regarding the behavior of post content on the dashboard website after a post has been published. I’ve noticed that the post isn’t saved on the dashboard (which really seems unnecessary), is my observation correct? Or is there some hidden location on the dashboard website where it’s stored?

    Furthermore, I’ve taken a look at the media gallery and noticed that the images sent to child websites are stored on the dashboard website after post submission. Is there a specific reason for keeping them on the dashboard site? Can I safely delete them? It’s curious to me that while the post itself isn’t saved, the media files are.

    Thanks for your assistance!

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  • Plugin Support Bojan Katusic

    (@bojankatusic)

    Hi @videorecover

    We’re very happy to hear you’re enjoying MainWP.

    Your observation is correct. The posts are not kept on the Dashboard after they are published to child sites.

    Images work a little bit differently. They are first uploaded to the Media Library of the Dashboard site while the post is being created on the MainWP Dashboard. However, we don’t delete them after the post is published.

    This is somewhat in line with how WordPress handles Media Library as well. Namely, they do not get deleted after a post containing them is deleted.

    There isn’t a major benefit for keeping them, other than to enable easy re-use of those images. However, they can be safely deleted from the Media Library after a post or a page is created.

    Plugin Support Bojan Katusic

    (@bojankatusic)

    Hi @videorecover

    It’s been some time since we heard back from you. I’ll assume that the answers we provided were satisfactory and mark the thread as resolved.

    If you have any further questions, please start a new thread.

    Thanks.

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