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1. wp_plugin
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello and thank you for your excellent plugin!

   Unfortunately, the latest release wiped out my entire site by deleting all of my custom fields (I use a lot of custom fields and they were all full of data).

   Despite this setback, I plan on continued use of your fine plugin so could you please tell me:

   1) What was the nature of this update? Is it critical that I update?

   2) Is there anything in your original plugin (or this new update) that could wipe out all my custom fields upon deactivation of the old plugin or activation of the new one?

   I am fervently fixing my site right now so I have not had a chance to try to duplicate the error to see exactly what may have caused it.

   When I get more details I will post them here.

   Thank you again for your fine plugin and I await your kind reply.

   Best Regards.

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-title-tag/

2. wp_plugin
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Additional Information:

   Wordpress Version:
   2.5.1 (Latest)

   SEO Title Tag Plugin Versions:
   2.1.4 (the version I was happily using - no problems whatsoever)
   2.2.0 (the update that wiped out all of the custom fields in my database)

   Thank you again for your excellent plugin. It is a fine plugin and I would like to help in any way that I can to prevent this from happening to other users.

   Best Regards.

3. wp_plugin
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Additional Information:

   Well, it took eleven hours but I finally managed to get my site online again.

   Unfortunately, getting it online was a matter of blood, sweat and tears (entering all my custom field data again) and I am no closer to discovering why my data were dropped upon upgrading this plugin.

   "Post hoc, ergo propter hoc." is a logical fallacy so, until someone can duplicate this error we really can't conclude that this plugin was at fault.

   It could have been a server-side database access or hardware error but I doubt it (we ran CHECK TABLE on our database tables and they were all OK).

   Another thing I should mention is that I did not upgrade automatically. I deactivated the plugin, erased the old plugin files, uploaded the new files and reactivated the plugin manually.

   Also, I am back to using Version 2.1.4 of this problem and and it seems to be working fine.

   Just to be on the safe side, you may want to forgo the latest upgrade. If you do decide to take the jump to 2.2.0, please *backup* your database!

   P.S. If anybody can answer the two questions in my first post, it would be greatly appreciated. I would consider trying to upgrade again if there were a compelling reason to do so (security update or must-have features).

   Cheers!

4. wp_plugin
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   ...back to using Version 2.1.4 of this *plugin* (not problem!) and it seems to be working fine...

   Sorry, it has been a long day. :P

5. wp_plugin
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Update:

   Looks like I am not the only one who had their blog literally wiped out by the latest version of this plugin:

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/181375

   The latest version (2.2.0) of SEO Title Tags may contain a serious bug that messes up your database.

   While I am no expert, my guess is that that wipes out all your post's custom fields and meta data.

   As with the other person who experienced problems (see above link), all my category data was wiped out and all posts returned to default category. I didn't get the tag error mentioned by the other person because my site does not use tags (but it makes sense - if a post's meta data are wiped out, any tag data would be wiped out as well).

   Please do NOT UPGRADE to the latest version of this plugin!

6. wp_plugin
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Update:

   The person mentioned in my previous post has added that even version 2.1.4 will mess up your tags.

   My site does not use tags so I had no problems with 2.1.4.

   Important:

   If your site uses tags, please do NOT install version 2.1.4 or version 2.2.0 of this plugin.

   Even if your site does not use tags, please do NOT install version 2.2.0 of this plugin under ANY circumstances until this issue is resolved.

7. therealsouthkorea
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Just posted on the other post regarding this at http://wordpress.org/support/topic/181375?replies=7#post-789623

   My gosh is it a pain and I'm going to have to spend hours for each blog (all 7 so far) that I've installed this plugin for. Oh Jeeez, the tags, the categories...will I be able to recover? What a waste...

8. enrico_34
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   :(... backups first folks, backups!

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