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@mlwilkerson mlwilkerson released this 01 Sep 16:47
4.3.0
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  • support Sharp Solid
  • support WordPress multisite

Font Awesome Cleanup

The font-awesome-cleanup.zip file attached to this release is a utility plugin that can be installed to cleanup the WordPress database after any previous installations of this Font Awesome plugin.

This might be necessary in some tricky cases of downgrading to an earlier version of the plugin, or when installing a version of the plugin that supports multisite (like 4.3.0) after already having attempted to install a previous version of the plugin (say, 4.2.0) which was not compatible with multisite.

If you're running multisite, it's important that any installation of a previous plugin version is totally cleaned up before trying to install a this version or newer on multisite. Upgrading on multisite without cleaning up first will probably result in an error. A previous installation can usually be cleaned up by deactivating and uninstalling it. Uninstall must be done by clicking "Delete" on the deactivated plugin's entry in the plugin list in the admin dashboard. It may also work to install the previous 4.2.0 version and then uninstall it, just to get its cleanup code to run. But if that doesn't work, then this Font Awesome Cleanup plugin is your fallback tool.

To use it:

  • download font-awesome-cleanup.zip from this page.
  • deactivate the Font Awesome plugin in the WordPress admin dashboard
  • install a new plugin, using the "Upload" option, and select the font-awesome-cleanup.zip file that you downloaded in the earlier step
  • activate the Font Awesome Cleanup plugin, and then click "Go Cleanup"
  • There'll be just one button to click to perform the cleanup, and then you're done

After the cleanup is done, you can proceed to install and activate the latest version of the Font Awesome plugin from the WordPress plugins directory.

Cleanup Scope

This "Font Awesome Cleanup" plugin can clean up either a single site, or the whole network of sites, based on its scope of activation. It requires that the Font Awesome plugin has already been deactivated.

If you activate this cleanup plugin network-wide, it will clean up all sites in the current network. If you activate it only on one site, it will clean up only that site. The scope of the cleanup is displayed on the settings page with the button that kicks off the cleaning process.

Most likely, you should install and activate it network-wide, and run the cleanup network-wide.

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