Empty Trash via WPCLI

  • Resolved braehler

    (@braehler)


    2 years, 3 months ago

    Hey there,

    I´m currently deleting old non featured jobs from our system. I wrote a function for that. So now, I got about 20.000 jobs in the trash. Is there a way to delete them via WP CLI? Because deleting them from the backend site would take ages 😉

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  • Robert

    (@e2robert)

    2 years, 3 months ago

    wp post delete $(wp post list --post_status=trash --format=ids)

    Thread Starter braehler

    (@braehler)

    2 years, 3 months ago

    @e2robert

    thanks but I had to change the code a little bit, this one here does the job

    wp post delete $(wp post list --post_type=job_listing --post_status=trash --format=ids) --force
    mauwiks

    (@its7376)

    2 years, 2 months ago

    It returns an error to me with “usage: wp post delete … [–force] [–defer-term-counting]”

    Thread Starter braehler

    (@braehler)

    2 years, 1 month ago

    @its7376

    I do not use the option of defer-term-counting in my command, so iI cant tell where the error comes from, but it seems you are using “-” instead of “–“, And I would suggest to make sure you are running the latest version of wpcli. And maybe you post the error here

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by braehler.
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