Title: Delete duplicated custom fields
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Delete duplicated custom fields

 *  [Jens Wedin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jedisthlm/)
 * (@jedisthlm)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-duplicated-custom-fields/)
 * I have a site where I rely heavily on custom fields. Somewhere along the way 
   my custom fileds have been duplicated, for example, I have a custom field called‘
   age’. This custom field has been duplicated 17 times with the same value in each
   of them. It might have to do with some of my plugins that I had but I now is 
   trying to clean up my database.
 * I found a plugin that should clean out duplicated custom fields called ‘Custom
   Field Taxonomies’ but this seem to clean out a bit too much as I loose lots of
   posts.
 * So my question is, anyone have a clue how to delete duplicated custom fields 
   from a database or WXR file. I have about 500 posts and don’t want to this manually
   🙂
 * Thanks in advance,
    /Jens

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 *  [shane-g](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g/)
 * (@shane-g)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-duplicated-custom-fields/#post-1222415)
 * Hi,
 * Check with this plugin:
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-taxonomies/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-taxonomies/)
 * Thanks,
 * Shane G.
 *  Thread Starter [Jens Wedin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jedisthlm/)
 * (@jedisthlm)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-duplicated-custom-fields/#post-1222660)
 * [@shane](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane/) G: Thanks, that did the 
   trick!

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 * Last reply from: [Jens Wedin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jedisthlm/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-duplicated-custom-fields/#post-1222660)
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