Really safe to delete orphaned post meta?

  • Resolved parakeet

    (@parakeet)


    5 years ago

    I am running Multisite.

    The plugin, when run from primary site 1, tells me that I have 637,000+ orphaned post meta.

    My largest table, according to the plugin is, wpcxt_13_postmeta, the post meta table for a site, with 641,722 rows (84.4Mb). Like all my sites, ACF is active on that and, there, has been used to build a page layout tool.

    When I investigate that table in phpMyAdmin, I see content in the rows that I recognise in the site as it stands today. However, the live page built from the ACF-saved postmeta is page ID 187, and the postmeta is stored for many more (seemingly non-existent) page IDs beside that, many times over.

    Could this be postmeta REVISIONs? I have already had the plugin remove revisions. Are postmeta revisions a separate thing, which are not removed along with post revisions?

    I need to be sure that, if I allow the plugin to delete all that postmeta, nothing will break.

    Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author Younes JFR.

    (@symptote)

    Dear @parakeet,

    Thank you for your message.

    I’m not sure about that, I need more information. Please kindly send me an email here sigmaplugin(at)gmail.com so I can investigate more about it.

    Best regards,
    Younes

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