Title: auto-draft clutter
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# auto-draft clutter

 *  [gewone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gewone/)
 * (@gewone)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-clutter/)
 * Hi!
 * I run a recent WP blog. Now, when I export my blog and look in the XML sheet,
   I find several instances of _‘<wp:status>auto-draft</wp:status>’_. I’ve done 
   lots of Googl’ing on the subject, and found out that WP is automatically creating
   these ‘hidden draft posts’ as soon as you click ‘New post’, just to keep track
   of it, or something.
 * However, my main concern is if this — as far as I see it, when the actual post
   is published — clutter ever cleaned up? In some of the posts regarding this, 
   there was talk about WP automatically cleaning up such ‘sections’ in a certain
   time after they were created. However, in similar posts there was talk about 
   bugs and hopes about changed behavior in coming versions. I got confused by that
   reading, so I decided to drop my own concrete post so that experienced/enthusiastic
   WP users could — hopefully — give me a simple explanation on what’s the real 
   deal here.
 * **So, will these _‘<wp:status>auto-draft</wp:status>’_ be cluttering up my SQL
   database like an accumulating building block, or will they be automatically wiped
   over time?**
 * When I first discovered this, and it started bothering my half-neurotic mind,
   I used phpMyAdmin to — manually — search and wipe every section like this. My
   blog did not turn malfunctioning after this procedure, so it’s obvious that these
   tag blocks are really just bloat after the actual post is published.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-clutter/#post-1753556)
 * Revision Control: [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/revision-control/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/revision-control/)
 *  Thread Starter [gewone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gewone/)
 * (@gewone)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-clutter/#post-1753649)
 * Plugin’s off the hook — brilliant!
    Thanks! 🙂

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## Tags

 * [auto draft](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/auto-draft/)
 * [bloat](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/bloat/)
 * [clutter](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/clutter/)

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 * Last reply from: [gewone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gewone/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-draft-clutter/#post-1753649)
 * Status: not resolved

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