Title: Restore to defaults
Last modified: October 12, 2018

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# Restore to defaults

 *  Resolved [Sea Jay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcollier/)
 * (@jcollier)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-to-defaults/)
 * At some point, Admin Menu Editor lost my settings and the menu lost many items,
   including Plugins and Network Settings. I couldn’t even access AME settings.
 * So, I deleted the plugin directory and reinstalled from the repository. When 
   I activated, the same problems appeared.
 * So, how do I reset to default settings?
 * Also, I didn’t check: is AME multi-site compatible?
 * [Additional information]
 * I did follow the instructions to put in a mu-plugins directory, but when I did
   it didn’t appear at the network or individual site level, perhaps because I used
   the new default method for setting up multisite.
    -  This topic was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by [Sea Jay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcollier/).
      Reason: Additional information

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 *  Plugin Author [Janis Elsts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whiteshadow/)
 * (@whiteshadow)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-to-defaults/#post-10775766)
 * In most cases, the easiest way to reset AME settings is to uninstall the plugin
   via the WordPress admin (instead of deleting the directory directly). That will
   delete all of its settings. Since you’ve already deleted it once, what you could
   do is install it without activating it and then uninstall it again. This would
   have the same effect.
 * > Also, I didn’t check: is AME multi-site compatible?
 * Yes, it supports Multisite. However, if its losing your settings, that could 
   be a sign that there’s a database problem. If it happens again, please verify
   that the `wp_sitemeta` contains only one entry with the key `ws_menu_editor`.
   Having multiple entries with the same key could mean that the settings are corrupted.
 *  Thread Starter [Sea Jay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcollier/)
 * (@jcollier)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-to-defaults/#post-10775992)
 * You were right! I believe the problem was caused by my deleting the plugin files(
   after moving them to the MU-plugins directory) and not having a WP delete function
   remove the database table.
 * All working well now.
 * (I would suggest removing the mu-plugins instruction in that AME worked fine 
   with a standard network activtion.)
 * Thanks!

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 * Last reply from: [Sea Jay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcollier/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-to-defaults/#post-10775992)
 * Status: resolved