Disconnecting a Joomla site and uninstalling the connector

Disconnecting ends Content Uploader's access to the site. It never deletes anything you published.

Disconnect#

Choose either side. Either ends access immediately:

• In Joomla: open Components → Content Uploader Connector and select Disconnect. Joomla says Disconnected. Content Uploader can no longer publish to this site. This is the surest way, because it works even if Content Uploader cannot be reached. Only users who may manage extensions can do it.
• In Content Uploader: open Sites and select Disconnect on the site (workspace owners only). Content Uploader clears its copy of the access key and asks the site to revoke it. If the site cannot be reached at that moment, Content Uploader still stops using the key; also disconnect in Joomla so the key is revoked there.
• Disabling the web services plugin or uninstalling the extension stops access at once too: Joomla's API then no longer has the connector's routes.

The site stays in the Sites list as disconnected, with its configurations and publishing history. To use it again, reconnect it from Joomla. A disconnected site cannot publish, and it stays in its workspace's list until another workspace connects it (see Frequently asked below).

What stays on your site#

• Every article Content Uploader created or updated. They are ordinary Joomla articles now: edit, unpublish or delete them as you like. Joomla's content history keeps the versions saved with the note Content Uploader.
• The categories and tags it created.
• The images it delivered, in images/content-uploader/ (in year and month folders), which Joomla's media manager shows like any other.
• The connector's records, if you only disconnect or disable the plugin. They list which articles were created from which record IDs, so that connecting again continues to update the same articles instead of creating duplicates.

Uninstalling the connector#

In System → Manage → Extensions, remove the package Content Uploader Connector. Uninstalling:

• revokes access and removes the connection secrets (the access key, any pending pairing and the used-request records);
• never deletes articles, categories, tags or images;
• keeps the installation identity and its small tables of what was created: the mapping from record IDs to articles, the operation log and the list of delivered images. They hold IDs and outcomes, not copies of your content. They stay so that reinstalling the connector updates the same articles and reuses the same images instead of creating duplicates.

If you want a clean slate, ask your host or developer to drop the tables whose names end in cu_identities, cu_operations, cu_media and cu_connection after you uninstall. Do this only if you will not use Content Uploader with this site again: the next import would create articles that already exist.

Frequently asked#

• Does disconnecting delete my articles? No.
• Will my configurations be deleted? No. They stay in your workspace.
• Can I connect the same site to a different workspace? Yes, once the first workspace has disconnected it. A site is connected to one workspace at a time; while another workspace has it connected, approving it elsewhere is refused. After you disconnect it, connect it from Components → Content Uploader Connector in Joomla and approve the other workspace. The first workspace keeps its record of the site, with its configurations and publishing history; the other workspace starts without them. Moving a site counts as a new site for the plan of the workspace that takes it.
• I reinstalled the connector and the site is not connected. Installing sends nothing and connects nothing: connect it again from Joomla. Because the installation identity was kept, Content Uploader recognises the site and it keeps its mappings and history.