Title: Deleting Multiple posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Deleting Multiple posts

 *  [loller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loller/)
 * (@loller)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-multiple-posts/)
 * Hi,
 * I wish to remove multiple posts without causing an overload to my servers resources.
 * Atm when I delete a post by using the ‘delete ‘ button, my server resources go
   to 10-15 times my normal server load, causing a huge delay on visitors visiting
   my site.
    If I try deleting a post in my admin panel under ‘manage’ , it takes
   20-30 seconds to delete or it causes a time-out syntac error.
 * Is there a better way to delete multiple selected posts?

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 *  [vietknight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vietknight/)
 * (@vietknight)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-multiple-posts/#post-854554)
 * There’s nothing we can do about it. You have to resort to contacting your host.
   If you are using version 2.6.1 or 2.6.2, you should have to option to “select
   all” or, if you go into categories, and click on the # in the of posts relevant
   to which group of posts you want to delete.
 * It causes an time-out sync error because your host is probably limiting the memory
   or server CPU usage that you may use. WordPress itself cannot do able thing about
   this.
 * Contact the host.
 * More info here:
    [http://en.forums.wordpress.com/search.php?q=delete+multiple+posts](http://en.forums.wordpress.com/search.php?q=delete+multiple+posts)
 *  Thread Starter [loller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loller/)
 * (@loller)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-multiple-posts/#post-854556)
 * Hi,
 * I have a dedicated server, 2,4ghz 1gb ram. Normal server load is 0.20 , when 
   deleting 1 post a time it pikes to 10 or even 20
 * Thanks tho
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-multiple-posts/#post-854557)
 * Then your server is configured extremely badly, because deleting a post does 
   not do any extreme processing or anything. It just sends SQL deletes for the 
   entry in the posts table, the associated comments, the associated postmeta information,
   and some of the stuff in the taxonomy for tags and category associations.
 * Seems to me like you need to optimize your mySQL server to not cause such thrashing
   on the system.
 *  Thread Starter [loller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loller/)
 * (@loller)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-multiple-posts/#post-854559)
 * Yea I have no idea what is causing it.
    I do have wp-super cache enabled..maybe
   that is causing it. For the rest I have a basic installed linux server with phpadmin
   and cpanel etc (server host is iweb.com)

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 * Last reply from: [loller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loller/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-multiple-posts/#post-854559)
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