[wp-hackers] wp-hackers Digest, Vol 65, Issue 66

[Ash Goodman]

I think this policy should apply to themes as well which may add quite
a few options. As with plugins though there are a lot of reason a
theme may be deactivated. We also have to allow for those who
install/uninstall via FTP and not through the dashboard.

Some kind of 'leave no trace' button you can click before deactivating
 plugin or theme seems like a good solution. But given all the
different things a plugin/theme can do, is there a way to standardize
it enough to wrap in a  function that any theme/plugin could call?


On 28 June 2010 18:18,  <wp-hackers-request at lists.automattic.com> wrote:
> I've seen a lot of discussions on the list mentioning to leave no trace
> when your plugin is deactivated by removing any options the plugin may
> have added to the options table.  The problem with doing this is that
> users may deactivate a plugin for reasons other than removing it
> permanently; ie, they may be doing an upgrade and disable all plugins to
> prevent conflicts that may occur.  When this is the case, removing all
> of the options your plugin may have saved will cause the user's
> preferences to be lost.  Here are a couple of options I see for this:
>
>
> 1.  Create a delete action hook for plugins to permanently remove
> options.  The issue with this, obviously, is that the plugin wouldn't be
> running register it's delete action.  There may be a solution to this.
>
> 2.  The second suggestion would be to use the autoload field of the
> options table to create a third status that would designate that the
> option is no longer used.  Options with this new status could even be
> cleaned out every so often.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Michael Pretty
> prettyboymp