Deleting created custom post

If you could provide the import/export settings, it’d be easy to replace those spaces with underscores. You could then re-import the post types and get it all taken care of.

That looked like a perfect idea BUT it didn’t work ??

The import run successfully but when I clicked on submit it didn’t remove the CPT it just emptied all the parametres but the content type is still there… Should I just remove all the lines regarding that CPT on the import and leave only the ones that I want?

THANKS AGAIN!

EDIT
Nevermind, I have tried importing again and removing one last white space that I missed and now I could remove it with no hassle!
HURRAY!

Thanks Michael and great plugin!

All good now!

Excellent. Thanks for the updates.

I’ve just had to do this and it worked fine. I simply grabbed the export information and deleted the post type I did not need from this data and then imported the remaining content back in and the unwanted post type was gone. All template files remained and are working fine.

This is what i had to delete and left the rest:

“our projects”:{“name”:”our projects”,”label”:”Our Projects”,”singular_label”:”Our Project”,”description”:”Project with details.”,”public”:”true”,”show_ui”:”true”,”has_archive”:”false”,”has_archive_string”:””,”exclude_from_search”:”false”,”capability_type”:”post”,”hierarchical”:”false”,”rewrite”:”true”,”rewrite_slug”:””,”rewrite_withfront”:”true”,”query_var”:”true”,”menu_position”:””,”show_in_menu”:”true”,”show_in_menu_string”:””,”menu_icon”:””,”supports”:[“title”,”thumbnail”],”taxonomies”:[],”labels”:{“menu_name”:”Our Projects”,”all_items”:”All Projects”,”add_new”:”Add New”,”add_new_item”:”Add New Project”,”edit”:”Edit”,”edit_item”:”Edit Project”,”new_item”:”New Project”,”view”:”View”,”view_item”:”View Project”,”search_items”:”Search Project”,”not_found”:”No Projects Found”,”not_found_in_trash”:”Not Found in Trash”,”parent”:”Parent Project”},”custom_supports”:””},”

Doing what needs to be done. I have it in the starter notes to not use spaces…but not sure how to highlight it any more without being too in peoples face about it. Plus I can’t say it’s all from new users, some may be older ones from long ago.

thanks Michael Beckwith
you saved my day

Welcome

Hey Michael,
I have exactly the same problem with CPT – I named it with a space in the slug and now I can’t delete it. The problem is that the solution you suggested doesn’t work for me. Please tell me if we are talking about exporting database or exporting content from WP (via WP Dashboard) – and then changing the name of the CPT? Either Way I can’t locate the code to change the name of the slug.
Any help would be much appreciated.

It’ll be the “Import/Export” submenu item from the CPTUI admin menu item. If you’re on the latest version, you’ll see a screen with 4 tabs, “Post Types”, “Taxonomies”, “Get Code”, and “Debug Info” and be on the first tab. Copy the right side textarea into the left side empty textarea, change the space to an underscore, and then click import. Once done, you should be able to delete the post type successfully again.

Thank you a lot for such a quick response. It works perfectly. I don’t know why I didn’t look for it in CPTUI section – my mistake. Thank you a lot for your help and for a extremely helpful WP Plugin ??

I’ve created a one custom post types in order to try the plugin and now when I try to delete them nothing happens and all I get is “Please provide a post type to delete”.

What am I doing wrong? I go to “Edit Post Types” on the CPT UI administration page, the type on the select box is the one I need to remove, I click “Delete Post Type” and the message pops…

I have also tried the “Import/Export” submenu item from the CPTUI admin menu item without sucess, I put this:
{"portf\u00f3lio":{"name":"portf\u00f3lio","label":"Portf\u00f3lio","singular_label":"portfolio","description":"","public":"true","show_ui":"true","show_in_nav_menus":"true","show_in_rest":"false","rest_base":"","has_archive":"true","has_archive_string":"","exclude_from_search":"false","capability_type":"post","hierarchical":"false","rewrite":"true","rewrite_slug":"","rewrite_withfront":"true","query_var":"true","query_var_slug":"","menu_position":"","show_in_menu":"true","show_in_menu_string":"","menu_icon":"","supports":["title","editor","excerpt","trackbacks","custom-fields","comments","revisions","thumbnail","author","page-attributes","post-formats"],"taxonomies":["category","post_tag"],"labels":{"menu_name":"Os_meus_post","all_items":"Todos_os_post","add_new":"Adicionar_novo","add_new_item":"Adicionar_novo_post","edit":"Edita","edit_item":"Editar_post","new_item":"Novo_Post","view":"Ver","view_item":"Ver_post","search_items":"Pesquisar_post","not_found":"Nenhum_post","not_found_in_trash":"Nenhum_post_encontrado_no_lixo","parent":"Post_superior"},"custom_supports":""},"portf\u00f3lio_":{"name":"portf\u00f3lio_","label":"Portf\u00f3lio","singular_label":"portfolio","description":"","public":"true","show_ui":"true","show_in_nav_menus":"true","show_in_rest":"false","rest_base":"","has_archive":"true","has_archive_string":"","exclude_from_search":"false","capability_type":"post","hierarchical":"false","rewrite":"true","rewrite_slug":"","rewrite_withfront":"true","query_var":"true","query_var_slug":"","menu_position":"","show_in_menu":"true","show_in_menu_string":"","menu_icon":"","supports":["title","editor","excerpt","trackbacks","custom-fields","comments","revisions","thumbnail","author","page-attributes","post-formats"],"taxonomies":["category","post_tag"],"labels":{"menu_name":"Os_meus_post","all_items":"Todos_os_post","add_new":"Adicionar_novo","add_new_item":"Adicionar_novo_post","edit":"Edita","edit_item":"Editar_post","new_item":"Novo_Post","view":"Ver","view_item":"Ver_post","search_items":"Pesquisar_post","not_found":"Nenhum_post","not_found_in_trash":"Nenhum_post_encontrado_no_lixo","parent":"Post_superior"},"custom_supports":""}}
Next I receave one Info : Post types has been successfully imported
But i can delete

My debug info is:

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WP Super Cache: 1.4.8

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Akismet: 3.1.8
Shortcodes Ultimate: 4.9.9
Simple Custom CSS: 3.3
Title Remover: 1.0
Yoast SEO: 3.1.1

Post Types:
{"portf\u00f3lio":{"name":"portf\u00f3lio","label":"Portf\u00f3lio","singular_label":"portfolio","description":"","public":"true","show_ui":"true","show_in_nav_menus":"true","show_in_rest":"false","rest_base":"","has_archive":"true","has_archive_string":"","exclude_from_search":"false","capability_type":"post","hierarchical":"false","rewrite":"true","rewrite_slug":"","rewrite_withfront":"true","query_var":"true","query_var_slug":"","menu_position":"","show_in_menu":"true","show_in_menu_string":"","menu_icon":"","supports":["title","editor","excerpt","trackbacks","custom-fields","comments","revisions","thumbnail","author","page-attributes","post-formats"],"taxonomies":["category","post_tag"],"labels":{"menu_name":"Os_meus_post","all_items":"Todos_os_post","add_new":"Adicionar_novo","add_new_item":"Adicionar_novo_post","edit":"Edita","edit_item":"Editar_post","new_item":"Novo_Post","view":"Ver","view_item":"Ver_post","search_items":"Pesquisar_post","not_found":"Nenhum_post","not_found_in_trash":"Nenhum_post_encontrado_no_lixo","parent":"Post_superior"},"custom_supports":""},"portf\u00f3lio_":{"name":"portf\u00f3lio_","label":"Portf\u00f3lio","singular_label":"portfolio","description":"","public":"true","show_ui":"true","show_in_nav_menus":"true","show_in_rest":"false","rest_base":"","has_archive":"true","has_archive_string":"","exclude_from_search":"false","capability_type":"post","hierarchical":"false","rewrite":"true","rewrite_slug":"","rewrite_withfront":"true","query_var":"true","query_var_slug":"","menu_position":"","show_in_menu":"true","show_in_menu_string":"","menu_icon":"","supports":["title","editor","excerpt","trackbacks","custom-fields","comments","revisions","thumbnail","author","page-attributes","post-formats"],"taxonomies":["category","post_tag"],"labels":{"menu_name":"Os_meus_post","all_items":"Todos_os_post","add_new":"Adicionar_novo","add_new_item":"Adicionar_novo_post","edit":"Edita","edit_item":"Editar_post","new_item":"Novo_Post","view":"Ver","view_item":"Ver_post","search_items":"Pesquisar_post","not_found":"Nenhum_post","not_found_in_trash":"Nenhum_post_encontrado_no_lixo","parent":"Post_superior"},"custom_supports":""}}

Taxonomies:
[]

		### End Debug Info ###

The issue for you rboto is that you put special characters in your slugs, which are causing array index mismatch issues, thus inability to delete.

See: portf\u00f3lio_, portf\u00f3lio

1.3.0 is going to have better prevention of this, but is not quite ready yet.

IF you want to start fresh, you can do an import of: {""} and it’ll remove the option for the post type. That way you can start fresh and leave the accented characters out of the slug field.

Thank you a lot for such a quick response. It works perfectly.