Delete Posts by URL Not Working

Hello,

Not sure what is happening.

Please give me the following details so that I can try to debug it.

– What is the post type of the posts you are trying to delete?
– How many posts were you trying to delete?
– What are the options that you choose in the filters?

Hello @savo86

I am marking this support request as resolved.

Feel free to re-open or post a reply if you are still facing this issue.

Hello Sudar,

I am having a similar issue trying to delete posts by url.

I have 3000+ posts to remove by url. These are of the ‘post’ type and I chose the option of moving them into the trash.

I went through all of them in small batches so that the process wouldn’t time out. It showed them in the trash which I then emptied in batches and showed them as deleted.

But they are all still in the CMS, listed in the posts. Any ideas what is going on?

Thank you,
John

Hello John,

What is the post status of the posts that you were deleting?

Hi Sudar,

They were ‘published’ posts.

I ended up having to write a simple script to identify the remaining posts in the system which needed to be removed.

It appears that the plugin did, in fact, remove the vast majority of the 3200+ posts, but did not remove about 40.

Not sure exactly what happened, but we seem to be in good shape now.

Thanks,
John

Hello John,

Thanks for providing us with additional information.

I am not sure what is causing this issue for you. Is there any possibility that these 40 posts have duplicate titles?

Hi Sudar,

Yes, I think it may have been an issue of duplicate (or very close) post titles.

John

Hello John,

Thanks for the confirmation. I will try to debug it with duplicate (or near duplicate) post tiles.