Deleting Plugins

[davecjr]

I recently looked around in my database and see what seems to be old plugins I haven't used in a long time or just tried out and deleted from the blog configuration. Should the pieces left behind be cleaned out of the database?

One reason I ask is that I know some of the previous plugins I used interfered with htmlarea and Tinymce and Tinymce still acts up sometimes and not other times.

[garvinhicking]

All plugins I know of don't delete their database tables - as long as the plugin is removed, the code doesn't get activated and thus will not lead to any DB queries for those tables.

The reason or idea behind this is that we think plugins might contain important data that you don't want to accidentaly remove - so you can always re-install a plugin and start with the data you left it with.

Like deleting the staticpage plugin would delete all written pages, but maybe someone isn't thinking about this...

Regards,
Garvin