{"id":19046271,"date":"2026-10-15T18:23:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/title-post-views-counter-cannot-be-activated-after-website-backup\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T18:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:23:31","slug":"title-post-views-counter-cannot-be-activated-after-website-backup","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/title-post-views-counter-cannot-be-activated-after-website-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Title: Post Views Counter cannot be activated after website backup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code><strong>Title: Post Views Counter cannot be activated after website backup \u2013 database table still exists<\/strong><br><br>Hello,<br><br>I am having a problem activating the Post Views Counter plugin on my WordPress blog.<br><br>After a website backup was restored by my hosting provider (IONOS), the Post Views Counter plugin was missing. I downloaded and installed it again, but when I try to activate it, I receive the following error message:<br><br>\u201cPost Views Counter could not safely recover data from a previous destructive deactivation. Retry activation after checking the database.\u201d<br><br>The plugin version is <strong>1.8.0<\/strong>.<br><br>I checked my database using phpMyAdmin and found the table <code>by7q9dwp_post_views<\/code>. It contains approximately <strong>331,978 records<\/strong>, so the table and its data still appear to be present.<br><br>I have also exported a backup of the database before making any further changes.<br><br>Could you please explain what causes this error and how I can safely reactivate the plugin without losing my existing post view counts?<br><br>I do not want to delete or recreate the database table because I want to preserve my existing statistics.<br><br>Thank you for your help!<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19046271","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19046271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19046271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19046271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}