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Would be great to get the PR description updated as it still references an old approach

Sure would update that and will check the feedbacks!

@dkotter, Here is the full plugin sweep to find all the metas that are owned and registered by the plugin.

A complete audit of all meta the AI plugin registers or writes, grouped by object type, so we can decide what to remove on uninstall and what to leave alone.

✅ Post meta — owned by the plugin

✅ Comment meta — owned by the plugin

✅ User meta — owned by the plugin

Term meta — none

The plugin registers/writes no term meta. It uses the wp_guideline_type taxonomy and assigns categories via wp_set_object_terms, but those are Gutenberg/core-owned taxonomy relationships, not plugin term meta.

❌ Meta the plugin touches but does NOT own — do not remove

Note: Generated by claude code, Opus 4.8.

Thanks,

Here is the full plugin sweep to find all the metas that are owned and registered by the plugin

Thanks @hbhalodia for pulling this together, this is super helpful!

The more I think about it, especially after looking through that list, I think likely fine to just leave all of that meta behind, other than maybe deleting wpai_connector_approval_notice_dismissed. While it's unlikely any of that data will be needed/used after the AI plugin is removed, there may be scenarios where a site still wants it.

And as you mention, all of that is associated with other objects that we aren't deleting (posts, attachments, comments) so seems like best to just leave that behind. And most of these are all fairly minimal amount of data so shouldn't cause any sort of database bloat if left.

But let me know if you feel differently or have opinions based on what you've seen other plugins do, whether they leave meta behind or not. Thanks again for all the work here!

Here is the full plugin sweep to find all the metas that are owned and registered by the plugin

Thanks @hbhalodia for pulling this together, this is super helpful!

The more I think about it, especially after looking through that list, I think likely fine to just leave all of that meta behind, other than maybe deleting wpai_connector_approval_notice_dismissed. While it's unlikely any of that data will be needed/used after the AI plugin is removed, there may be scenarios where a site still wants it.

And as you mention, all of that is associated with other objects that we aren't deleting (posts, attachments, comments) so seems like best to just leave that behind. And most of these are all fairly minimal amount of data so shouldn't cause any sort of database bloat if left.

But let me know if you feel differently or have opinions based on what you've seen other plugins do, whether they leave meta behind or not. Thanks again for all the work here!

Thanks for the update here!

While it's hard to say what other plugins do, I feel like all the plugins have different scenarios to cover and they do differently. There is no any exact source of truth what needs to be done. Its the plugins choice what to do with there data, i.e., to either keep, to either delete, or to delete some part and keep some.

I have a strong opinion here that, since we are not deleting the objects like for example a generated comment, or a generated image, deleting there meta would not be beneficial and may loose some key sources for identification, but still all those meta are part of AI plugin and removing them should not cause any disturbance to those objects, that would function as is. The above statement does not sounds a complete favour on either remove or keep.

I am thinking to get an opinion here from more team members on what they feel should be good choice for uninstall, that is to remove the meta that are added by plugin or keep them as is. @jeffpaul @justlevine

Also thinking to at least go with any one thing for now and we can iterate it on future based on the feedbacks we receive.

Thanks,

have a strong opinion here that, since we are not deleting the objects like for example a generated comment, or a generated image, deleting there meta would not be beneficial and may loose some key sources for identification, but still all those meta are part of AI plugin and removing them should not cause any disturbance to those objects, that would function as is. The above statement does not sounds a complete favour on either remove or keep.

I would say let's just leave that meta behind and as you mention, can always update that in the future to be deleted if we get requests for that. But definitely open to second opinions here.

have a strong opinion here that, since we are not deleting the objects like for example a generated comment, or a generated image, deleting there meta would not be beneficial and may loose some key sources for identification, but still all those meta are part of AI plugin and removing them should not cause any disturbance to those objects, that would function as is. The above statement does not sounds a complete favour on either remove or keep.

I would say let's just leave that meta behind and as you mention, can always update that in the future to be deleted if we get requests for that. But definitely open to second opinions here.

Sure, I will wait for the 2nd Opinion before moving forward to remove the meta removal from the PR.

It would be great if we have that earliest. 😅

I concur with Darin, so @hbhalodia please proceed with any further changes needed here... thanks!

Thanks @jeffpaul, I would update the PR as needed. To confirm, we would be leaving the post,comment etc meta's behind and would only remove the options as a cleanup part as per discussions.

Yes, let's see if community feedback wants to see more/less cleaned up and can iterate in a future release/PR as necessary

Hi @jeffpaul @dkotter, This is now ready to be reviewed again. Updates,

1. Removed post, comment meta from the cleanup process.
2. Updated the test to ensure everything works as expected.

Thanks,