@Andrew We are still in the early stages of development for our site. As a result, we do not yet have an extraordinary number of posts in our blog network. We finally came to a nice model for standardizing some categories and tags across our blog network. I have the Global Site Tags plugin installed, for some time now actually. Therefore it's already been at a work a while.
What I'd like to do is uninstall the plugin, wipe clear any database tables that house the data generated for this, then reinstall, and go modify each post with the new categories and tags and publish the updates so that we have a new global structure in place. In light of this knowledge...
1) Will this work?
2) If so, which tables do I need to delete in my database (I have only one at this time)? I want to make sure I'm not deleting anything really important.
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Hiya Dave,
I'm not exactly sure which options would need to be dropped from the database, but I wonder if you couldn't just change the category/tag structure and if the plugin would update itself from the new data available? I don't see how this would hurt anything as you can always delete the plugin afterwords if it doesn't give you the results you're looking for.
Also, Andrew is away from the forums right now, but I'll tag Aaron and Barry on this one. I'm sure one of them can provide a definitive answer! ;D
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Thanks Mason,
I went ahead and unassigned all existing categories and tags from existing posts and this didn't change the global tag cloud. Looks like the database tables will have to be cleared. I can try now to uninstall the plugin and then reinstall but I believe it will just rerecognize the existing tables once reinstalled. We shall see.
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Unfortunately WP 3.0 removed built in support for a global category list (which Global site tags depends on), this is likely why it is not updating. Please wait till we can get a fix out for the plugin.
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Hiya Dave,
I'm not exactly sure which options would need to be dropped from the database, but I wonder if you couldn't just change the category/tag structure and if the plugin would update itself from the new data available? I don't see how this would hurt anything as you can always delete the plugin afterwords if it doesn't give you the results you're looking for.
Also, Andrew is away from the forums right now, but I'll tag Aaron and Barry on this one. I'm sure one of them can provide a definitive answer! ;D
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Thanks Mason,
I went ahead and unassigned all existing categories and tags from existing posts and this didn't change the global tag cloud. Looks like the database tables will have to be cleared. I can try now to uninstall the plugin and then reinstall but I believe it will just rerecognize the existing tables once reinstalled. We shall see.
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Unfortunately WP 3.0 removed built in support for a global category list (which Global site tags depends on), this is likely why it is not updating. Please wait till we can get a fix out for the plugin.
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Thanks Aaron. Is Andrew the develop on this? Also, can we get an update on this thread when the fix is out for the plugin?
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Andrews out, hence the delay. I'll have to have a look at it hopefully today.
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@Aaron
@Andrew
Just checking in to see if any progress was made on updating the Global Site Tags plugin. Please let me know.
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Hi David,
Aaron should be able to update you art the start of the week.
Cheers, James
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Any update on this? I'm having a similar issue.
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@Aaron are you able to help out with this or provide an update?
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Hey there, we are finishing up a fix for this and it should be up tonight or tomorrow.
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Thanks....looking forward to it.
Appreciate the help.
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Finally we have a fix for you guys. Hopefully it solves all issues:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/post-indexer-20-beta
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/global-site-tags-20-beta
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Thanks Aaron! I'm off to testing!
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