How do I clean unwanted data that a plugin has written to my database?

  • oldmankit

    (@oldmankit)


    10 years, 3 months ago

    A plugin (W3 Total Cache) wrote some data into my database that I consider unwanted, even intrusive. It has planted data from the author’s own feed into my database. Here is a small sample; there is lots more:

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    I have two questions. First, is this kind of behaviour by the plugin author acceptable, or am I being fussy? Second, how do I get rid of it? I stopped using the plugin a long time ago.

    I tried a plugin (WPDBSpringClean), but fortunately before I clicked I read somewhere that it’s not suitable for multisite, which I have. (I’m not afraid to run SQL commands, as I regularly backup the database.)

    (There is a previous post about this issue but it has an aggressive stance, so I wanted to ask again from a more neutral standpoint.)

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