Mass delete slideshows

  • Resolved zimbo000

    (@zimbo000)


    1 year, 6 months ago

    I have recently changed hosting provider. It was not possible to move my staging/development sub-domain site to the new hosting so I am having to create my test site from scratch. I have copied the ‘live’ site over to become the test site but in order to save on storage space I am removing/deleting much of the content on the new test site, just maintaining enough to test out new features, updates etc.

    The issue I have is that the live site, and now the new test site, has over 2000 MetaSlider slideshows, and I only need to keep about 5 or so on the test site.

    How can I mass delete 1995 slideshows in one go? If there is not a tool within the plugin, I know the slider data is stored in database tables, so I could edit/modify by SQL – can you advise which tables and fields I would need to change?

    The nuclear option on the test site is to delete the plugin, on the basis that – I assume – deletion would remove all the data from the tables. Is this true?

    Would deletion just be the quickest and easiest way? I would then re-install the plugin on the test site and re-create a couple of sliders for testing purposes.

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  • Plugin Author Steve Burge

    (@stevejburge)

    Hi @zimbo000

    Thanks for using MetaSlider. I’ve written up a short guide to how we store data: https://www.metaslider.com/docs/metaslider-database-information/

    Hopefully that’s helpful for you in cleaning out this site.

    Thread Starter zimbo000

    (@zimbo000)

    That’s useful but it shows you populate 5 different database tables and for one slideshow there might be 10 or more images, so it’s multiple records across 5 tables. In other words, for 2000+ slideshows, that’s a nightmare to try and action via phpMyAdmin.

    Please can you answer the question about deleting the plugin – do you clean out the tables on deletion? Most plugins on deletion ask whether to keep the data associated with the plugin, and if you answer ‘no’, they delete the relevant table entries. I’m hoping you offer the same option…

    Plugin Author Steve Burge

    (@stevejburge)

    @zimbo000 Sorry, we don’t have a delete feature like that yet, but we’ll look into adding it.

    However, because we use the WordPress core for everything, there are a lot of plugins and scripts that can do this. I spent a few minutes and found this for example: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/custom-post-type-cleanup/. There are plenty more like it.

    Thread Starter zimbo000

    (@zimbo000)

    Thanks. I’ll investigate plugins. In case they can’t do something, or whatever, and I have to do some ‘manual’ SQL edits, is there an order in which you’d recommend attacking the tables, e.g. wp_term_relationships first, then wp_terms, wp_posts last etc.?

    I haven’t looked at your guide in detail yet, which I certainly would before any plugin or editing work, but a cursory glance seems that some links between tables are just numbers/IDs, and if I edit tables in the wrong way, I might not know what’s linked to what. Does that make sense?

    Plugin Author Steve Burge

    (@stevejburge)

    @zimbo000 I would recommend probably using a plugin for this. Because MetaSlider uses the WordPress core, it should be quicker and more reliable than writing SQL.

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