WP Carousel Deleted itself?

I’m not sure about what is happening, but if you post your export code, I’ll check it and perhaps I can find what gone wrong.

If you can’t get the export code, just post the value obtained when running the following code:

echo '<p>ITEMS TABLE: '.get_option(WP_CAROUSEL_ITEMS_TABLE).' </p>';
echo '<p>CONFIG TABLE: '.get_option(WP_CAROUSEL_CONFIG_TABLE).' </p>';

[Code moderated as per the Forum Rules. Please use the pastebin]

It is strange: when I unpack the export code (just base64_decode it and then unserialize the result) I found that the config if ok, but the items added to the carousel are corrupt (they should be an array and they are not and array but a simple string).

The unserialized items string is:

sA1539:”a:1:{i:1;a:4:{s:3:”0__”;a:3:{s:9:”IMAGE_URL”;s:289:”https://174.121https://174.121.8.194/\

When I unpack the export code, before unserializing the items array (yes, the export code when unpacked is just an array with two items, each item is a serialized array, one of items added to each carousel and the other one the config of each carousel) I get an strange items serialized array:

s:97:”sA1539:”a:1:{i:1;a:4:{s:3:”0__”;a:3:{s:9:”IMAGE_URL”;s:289:”https://174.121https://174.121.8.194/\”;

If you look at the serialized string, you’ll find an strange character (). I think this character is breaking WP Carousel. It could be interesting for updates if you had add any strange character to the carousel. I think WP Carousel should handle “strange” characters like spanish ones, but I don’t know if it supports japanese characters (for instance).

It’s a pitty, but I think you can’t recover the items added to your carousels. If I were you, I’ll uninstall WP Carousel to reset its content and create new carousels. If you start from 0 your carousels and send your new export code to me, I can send you a modified version of the export code that will set up the carousels with the same configuration you were using before uninstalling WP Carousel, but the items will need to be added one by one again.

You can also try to use a backup of your carousel. WP Carousel 1.0 features a backup system which can be really useful some times. I think that you may have a backup (automatically created by WP Carousel) that can restore your carousel to a previous state when the error hasn’t happened.

If you discover what gone wrong and broke WP Carousel, please, report it. I’m really interested in fixing any WP Carousel bug.

And sorry for the inconvenience.

Edit: Your previous post was moderated while I was writing this reply. Please, post your export code in Pastebin if you can. I’ll like to check it more deeply.

never used Pastebin. Is this all you need? https://pastebin.com/XESG0G2g

Now that you mention it. I did replace images of the carousel. I was using a custom field. Manually pasting image location, and typing text and title. It was working, and then I had to replace the photos. But I did it just like before. Looking at this “https://174.121https://174.121.8.194/\” maybe I didn’t highlight all the text before I pasted? Shouldn’t have been any “special” characters though. Oh, it did include a ~. so was like: 192.168.1.1/~directory

But like I said, it worked before.

But I can’t see the instance of the carousel to see if the images are whats throwing it off. I’ve tried deactivating, and re-activating it, and still gives me all errors. Same when I un-installed and re-installed too.

Thanks for you help.

WP Carousel has an “Uninstall” link in its menu that allows you to remove WP Carousel’s content from your Database. You can delete WP Carousel but the data will remain in your Database until you uninstall WP Carousel using its uninstall page.

You can try restoring a backup before uninstalling WP Carousel. It might work and you won’t lose all your WP Carousel configuration.

You can see the “Uninstall” link in this image.