Delete Posts and Comments from Action Scheduler

The Action Scheduler is a background processing, queue job runner which is built into WooCommerce core. A number of plugins use the Action Scheduler, WooCommerce Subscriptions and WooCommerce Follow-Ups being two of the best known.

WP-CLI makes it easy to delete posts and comments which have been created by the Action Scheduler in WooCommerce. There may be cases where the Action Scheduler might create a large number of posts and comments on your live site, and you want to clear up the data from the site's database.

Delete Comments from Action Scheduler

To delete comments created by the Action Scheduler, you can run this wp-cli command:

wp comment list --field=comment_ID --'comment_author'='ActionScheduler' --number=1000 | xargs wp comment delete --force

The number can be increased if you have more comments that need to be deleted to 2000 or higher.

Delete Bulk Posts from Action Scheduler

To delete all the scheduled-actionposts, you can run this wp-cli command:

wp post list --field=ID --post_type=scheduled-action --posts_per_page=1000 | xargs wp post delete --force

The number can be increased if you have more posts that need to be deleted to say 2000 or higher.

Delete Scheduled Action Posts

To delete all the scheduled-action posts with a post status of trash, you can run this wp-cli command:

wp post list --field=ID --post_type=scheduled-action --posts_per_page=1000 --post_status=trash | xargs wp post delete --force

Delete Bulk Scheduled Actions

To delete all the scheduled-action posts with a post status of cancel,  you can run this wp-cli command:

wp post list --field=ID --post_type=scheduled-action --posts_per_page=1000 --post_status=cancel | xargs wp post delete --force

Conclusion

Using a mix of these commands, you will be able to delete posts and comments easily, using WP-CLI on your site. It will also keep your site database clean, allowing it to run more efficiently.  Take the work out of maintaining your WordPress site with our Managed WooCommerce product.  Our WooCommerce platform comes with free iThemes plugins curated especially for online stores.

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