Can I retain all my data if I decide to purchase plugins from plugin developer?

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February 9, 2020 at 10:52 pm #22044

Danielle Kong
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Hi guys,

Sorry if it’s a really stupid question – I don’t really know too much about this stuff.

If in the future I decide to purchase a plugin from the actual plugin developer, but I had already been using one downloaded from here, how do I go about that?

Does it require any manual database management? Or do I delete one plugin and install the other, and it just works?

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks in advance!

April 16, 2020 at 12:22 pm #22173

Cobb
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Some plugins will “clean” their data if you delete them, so it’s possible if you delete the plugin and then re-install the same one that you’ll lose data. I recommend just uploading the new plugin and replacing the old one via SFTP.

The plugin developers offer support and automatic updates for the licensing fee. I cannot confirm this of myself, but the plugins on GPLDL should be the exact same. I’ve tested 1 via checksum and binary comparisons. The binary comparison was exact, the checksum was not only due to file datetime stamps.

April 19, 2020 at 6:39 am #22182

7h3h
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Thanks William for confirming that.
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