Leftover pages after deletion

  • Resolved Jason Ryan

    (@viablethought)


    7 years, 3 months ago

    Hello –

    I am in the process of migrating a site to a new install of WP and theme using WP ALL Import and its addon for Yoast. After the first attempt at migrating pages, it failed to import all of the pages so I deleted them to attempt another import with optimized settings. However, the Pages have been deleted yet they still show in SEO -> Tools -> Bulk Editor!

    It shows there are 100+ entries with no way to “bulk” delete them all so I manually have to click “edit” under each entry and remove the page manually. This process is not ideal at all. Why are there entries still showing in the Bulk Editor if all of my pages have been deleted?

    Thanks

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  • The bulk editor shows all your pages (under the All tab), even those that are in the trash. If you want to see published pages only, you’ll need to switch to the Published tab (see screenshot). Alternatively, if you go to the trash and delete your pages permanently, they shouldn’t appear in the bulk editor anymore.

    Thread Starter Jason Ryan

    (@viablethought)

    @monbauza –

    Unfortunately, that is not the case. I had deleted all pages that were imported to start the process over but stumbled upon the Bulk Editor by chance and saw that all of the pages were still showing here (Even though they have been Deleted Permanently and the Trash had been emptied).

    For whatever reason, Yoast was still holding onto these pages and showing them in the Bulk Editor.

    Plugin Support Rumejan Barbarona

    (@onlyincebu)

    Can you please clear your cache from your plugin, theme, server, browser, or CDN such as Cloudflare?

    Thread Starter Jason Ryan

    (@viablethought)

    @onlyincebu –

    There was no caching, these were actual entries in the database. We manually removed each one from the Bulk Editor screen and rechecked the DB and they were gone. Something went wrong during the import and for whatever reason Yoast captured these pages that were no one to be found anywhere within WordPress.

    Plugin Support Md Mazedul Islam Khan

    (@mazedulislamkhan)

    @viablethought Unfortunately, we are not sure why the deleted pages entries were in the database that was showing the bulk editor tool as something went wrong while you migrating your website.

    Thread Starter Jason Ryan

    (@viablethought)

    Hello –

    I have gotten it figured it out, it was a conflict with a number of different things. Mostly because the theme we’re using has the “footers” as a custom post type and upon import the pages were somehow being associated with this post type via Parent Slug. e.g.

    /default-footer-post-type/page-url/

    So when the Pages were being deleted on the “Pages” screen, they weren’t technically being fully removed from the DB. They all still showed in the Bulk Editor screen. But what I had found out the 2nd go-around was that if I just delete the “default” footer, then the Pages were able to be removed normally on the Pages screen.

    It is quite the anomaly it took a bit to figure out, just wanted to mention it here in case anyone else stumbles upon it.

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