diff --git a/backend/src/plugins/Starboard/StarboardPlugin.ts b/backend/src/plugins/Starboard/StarboardPlugin.ts
index 5d251077..fa8c841e 100644
--- a/backend/src/plugins/Starboard/StarboardPlugin.ts
+++ b/backend/src/plugins/Starboard/StarboardPlugin.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { PluginOptions } from "knub";
-import { ConfigSchema, StarboardPluginType } from "./types";
+import { ConfigSchema, defaultStarboardOpts, StarboardPluginType } from "./types";
 import { zeppelinPlugin } from "../ZeppelinPluginBlueprint";
 import { trimPluginDescription } from "src/utils";
 import { GuildSavedMessages } from "src/data/GuildSavedMessages";
@@ -89,6 +89,16 @@ export const StarboardPlugin = zeppelinPlugin<StarboardPluginType>()("starboard"
     `),
   },
 
+  configPreprocessor(options) {
+    if (options.config?.boards) {
+      for (const [name, opts] of Object.entries(options.config.boards)) {
+        options.config.boards[name] = Object.assign({}, defaultStarboardOpts, options.config.boards[name]);
+      }
+    }
+
+    return options;
+  },
+
   // prettier-ignore
   commands: [
       MigratePinsCmd,
diff --git a/backend/src/plugins/Starboard/util/getStarboardOptsForStarboardChannel.ts b/backend/src/plugins/Starboard/util/getStarboardOptsForStarboardChannel.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 1c32b42e..00000000
--- a/backend/src/plugins/Starboard/util/getStarboardOptsForStarboardChannel.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-import { TStarboardOpts, StarboardPluginType, defaultStarboardOpts } from "../types";
-import { PluginData } from "knub";
-
-export function getStarboardOptsForStarboardChannel(
-  pluginData: PluginData<StarboardPluginType>,
-  starboardChannel,
-): TStarboardOpts[] {
-  const config = pluginData.config.getForChannel(starboardChannel);
-
-  const configs = Object.values(config.boards).filter(opts => opts.channel_id === starboardChannel.id);
-  configs.forEach(cfg => {
-    if (cfg.enabled == null) cfg.enabled = defaultStarboardOpts.enabled;
-    if (cfg.star_emoji == null) cfg.star_emoji = defaultStarboardOpts.star_emoji;
-    if (cfg.stars_required == null) cfg.stars_required = defaultStarboardOpts.stars_required;
-    if (cfg.copy_full_embed == null) cfg.copy_full_embed = false;
-  });
-
-  return configs;
-}