Title: Deleting drafts from database
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Deleting drafts from database

 *  [bradford-online](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bradford-online/)
 * (@bradford-online)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-drafts-from-database/)
 * If I want to delete all my drafts can I simply delete all the entries in my wp_posts
   table that have a post_status of “draft”?

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-drafts-from-database/#post-640042)
 * Not advisable to do it that way.
 * Delete them in your admin.
 *  Thread Starter [bradford-online](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bradford-online/)
 * (@bradford-online)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-drafts-from-database/#post-640077)
 * Thank-you.
 * The reason I want to do it this way is because I used an RSS plugin that added
   over 8,000 drafts and the admin has no way to mass-delete. They are all in one
   category, so they’re easy to find in the table. There are no comments to them.
 * If I delete them from wp_posts will it affect other tables?
 *  Thread Starter [bradford-online](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bradford-online/)
 * (@bradford-online)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-drafts-from-database/#post-640126)
 * Wow, this forum really sucks. I have NEVER received a useful answer to a question.
 * Absolutely useless. You’re better off finding a 3rd party answer on Google

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-drafts-from-database/#post-640126)
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