I woke up in the morning with a plan of action to reset my WordPress installation and Avada theme. However, I got an email from ClearDB that I had exceeded my database size of 20MB. This is the size limitation for the free database. I wondered if some of the failed imports did add some content. I thought I would just log into the WordPress admin interface and reset the content. However, I couldn’t log in. So, that started another phase of troubleshooting.
- I decided to try again to get direct access to the database and figured I could delete something. ClearDB website mentions to use MySQL Workbench. So, I downloaded that and tried to created a connection. The connection info is in your ClearDB endpoints tab.
- I entered the info into new connection profile and clicked Test Connection
- I received an error message that “SSL not enabled”. I researched this error message and found out I needed to import some SSL certificates. I did that but then got an error message about a private key. I researched that. It didn’t solve the issue.
- Finally, I must have just clicked OK to save the profile. I opened the connection and it opened fine.
- I started researching ways to delete the content in posts. I found SQL scripts and even tried manually removing them. However, the size of the database never changed in the ClearDB dashboard.
- Finally, I noticed a Backups & Jobs tab in the ClearDB dashboard. I just went ahead and restored the earliest backup.
- The size still didn’t change but decided to take a break. When I returned, the database size was 1 MB and everything was working again.
