Disconnecting a WordPress site and uninstalling the plugin

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

Disconnect#

Choose either side. Either ends access immediately:

• In WordPress: open Settings → Content Uploader and select Disconnect. This is the surest way, because it works even if Content Uploader cannot be reached.
• 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, but also disconnect it in WordPress so the key is revoked there.
• Deactivating the plugin has the same effect as disconnecting.

The site stays in the Sites list as disconnected, with its configurations and publishing history. To use it again, reconnect it from WordPress. A disconnected site cannot publish and does not count towards plan limits for publishing, but it stays in its workspace's list until another workspace connects it (see Frequently asked below).

What stays on your site#

• Every post, page and image Content Uploader created. They are ordinary WordPress content now. Edit or delete them as you like.
• The categories and tags it created.
• The plugin's records, if you only deactivate or disconnect. They list which items were created from which record IDs, so that connecting again continues to update the same items instead of creating duplicates.

Uninstalling the plugin#

Deleting the plugin in Plugins removes the connection credentials, and never deletes posts. It deliberately keeps its small database tables with the installation identity, the record IDs of what it created and the log of operations. They contain IDs and outcomes, not copies of your content. They are kept so that reinstalling the plugin does not create duplicates of items you already imported.

If you want a clean slate, ask your host or developer to drop the tables whose names end in freakedout_content_uploader_identities, freakedout_content_uploader_media, freakedout_content_uploader_nonces and freakedout_content_uploader_operations after you uninstall. Do this only if you will not use Content Uploader with this site again, because the next import would then create items that already exist.

Frequently asked#

• Does disconnecting delete my content? 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 Settings → Content Uploader in WordPress 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.