Title: Delete using phpMyAdmin
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Delete using phpMyAdmin

 *  [enquirer32](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enquirer32/)
 * (@enquirer32)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-using-phpmyadmin/)
 * I want to delete a number of posts. If I use phpMyAdmin is it sufficient that
   I delete the rows I find in wp_posts or will this leave stuff hanging around 
   which will mess up my database?

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-using-phpmyadmin/#post-1416978)
 * Better to use the admin interface to do that. You can do a bulk delete and under
   Screen Options you can set it to see 999 posts per page.
 * Otherwise you could leave stuff in the postmeta and terms tables that really 
   should be left.
 *  [gravitydk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gravitydk/)
 * (@gravitydk)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-using-phpmyadmin/#post-1417444)
 * Great tip, thank you.

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## Tags

 * [delete posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/delete-posts/)
 * [phpmyadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/phpmyadmin/)
 * [wp_posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp_posts/)

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-using-phpmyadmin/#post-1417444)
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