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Keeper of the Dark Chocolate
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5th February 2009
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Let's see if I remember this:
If a user deletes a blog, it removes all record from the dbs. I believe it's supposed to delete uploaded files as well but I recall a couple of support tickets on that.
If you as a site admin delete a blog, it just marks it as such in the wp_blogs table. It keeps all of the dbs intact though.
Archive and spam used to do the same thing and throw up that error of "This blog has been archived..." I think the messages are different now, one for each, but the dbs and files are kept intact.
Me personally, but instead of using the spam link I delete instead for the very reason that it removes it from the database. Nothing like having 5000 tables and 40% (or more) are useless. Might as well keep the db as tidy as possible.
In turn, for archiving purposes I may either leave it, archive it, or delete it, situation depending. If it's someone that hasn't "been around" for months, I may archive it for a few more to see what happens. Then again, I may leave it alone as well. The latter mainly depends on whether or not ads are involved and how strong the content is. After all, giving up ad impressions isn't a good thing.
The final case would be if it has been inactive for a good while, and only has a post or two (or still has the default post and nothing more). In those cases they were usually someone who was curious and had no intention of using the site. Those I typically just delete to save the database space.
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Keeper of the Dark Chocolate — 5th February 2009 #
Let's see if I remember this:
If a user deletes a blog, it removes all record from the dbs. I believe it's supposed to delete uploaded files as well but I recall a couple of support tickets on that.
If you as a site admin delete a blog, it just marks it as such in the wp_blogs table. It keeps all of the dbs intact though.
Archive and spam used to do the same thing and throw up that error of "This blog has been archived..." I think the messages are different now, one for each, but the dbs and files are kept intact.
Hope this helps,
-drmike
Member — 5th February 2009 #
Thanks drmike
Keeper of the Dark Chocolate — 5th February 2009 #
Not a problem. I would test those just to make sure. *cough* When you get my age, you tend to forget things.
Member — 5th February 2009 #
I'm about to do that... I'll post results today
Member — 5th February 2009 #
Ok here are my results:
Deactivate: Flags deleted db field, message is displayed on the front side, can undo
Archive: Flags archived db field, message is displayed on the front side, can undo
Spam: Flags spam db field, message is displayed on the front side, can undo
Delete: Drops tables and rm dirs and files
User Delete Blog: Drops tables and rm dirs and files
Keeper of the Dark Chocolate — 5th February 2009 #
That must have been changed somewhere as it use to keep them.
Oh well. Got the rest of them right.
Sorry about that.
Member — 5th February 2009 #
Me personally, but instead of using the spam link I delete instead for the very reason that it removes it from the database. Nothing like having 5000 tables and 40% (or more) are useless. Might as well keep the db as tidy as possible.
In turn, for archiving purposes I may either leave it, archive it, or delete it, situation depending. If it's someone that hasn't "been around" for months, I may archive it for a few more to see what happens. Then again, I may leave it alone as well. The latter mainly depends on whether or not ads are involved and how strong the content is. After all, giving up ad impressions isn't a good thing.
The final case would be if it has been inactive for a good while, and only has a post or two (or still has the default post and nothing more). In those cases they were usually someone who was curious and had no intention of using the site. Those I typically just delete to save the database space.
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