Comments on: Plugins Garbage Collector WordPress plugin

By: Vladimir Garagulya

Vladimir Garagulya — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:15:00 +0000

Hi Kent!

As one of the reasons: if you have a lot of plugins installed, script could be interrupted by PHP execution time limit of your server. So, please answer how much plugins you have of your blog, including deactivated plugins?Is it possible to activate temporally DEBUG option in wp-config.php and execute PGC check again? May be you get some error message then, which could help to identify problem.

By: Vladimir Garagulya

Vladimir Garagulya — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:11:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing this information.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:41:00 +0000

@Kent T I also have WP 3.3 running and Garbage Collector is working fine on at least two different websites.

By: kent T

kent T — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:34:00 +0000

hi, good day!

I installed your plugin but it seems it doesn’t work.

It just stays on Plugins Garbage Collector page with the circling loading icon, but it doesn’t seem to work. I left it for 5 hours and when i get back it is still circling circling circling.

Any advice? By the way i’m on wordpress 3.3

By: Vladimir Garagulya

Vladimir Garagulya — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:34:00 +0000

If you don’t plan to restore data from the deleted domain sometime somewhere there is no reason to keep those tables in the database. Just drop them.
Drop command deletes the table itself – “delete table ‘table_name’” SQL command is executed.
Empty command deletes all records/data/content from the table – “delete from ‘table_name’” SQL command is executed.
It’s not safe to delete data from DB table which belongs to active plugin in the most of cases. Plugin could store some critical data there without which it could not work for example.
So it’s more safe to deactivate plugin and delete its tables, then activate plugin, in order it will be fully re-installed from the scratch.
If you are sure that some DB table was empty after the plugin activation you can empty it without plugin work break, of course.