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Deleting posts using Filezilla (7 posts)

  1. Samantha_G
    Member
    Posted 6 months ago #

    Hi All,

    Using the suggestion of a very helpful user here on this forum, I downloaded Filezilla to assist with deleting posts off my blog. As was explained, in the process of migrating my blogger blog to wordpress, only 85% of my blog posts uploaded and with no photos.

    I was told that I could delete those posts via FTP and retry uploading it again, so I downloaded Filezilla to make things easier. Everything is set-up with Filezilla - my only problem is knowing what files are my blog posts. Can someone please let me know what file my blog posts would fall under?

    Thanks in advance!

  2. govpatel
    Member
    Posted 6 months ago #

    Your posts are not saved in files they are saved in Database so you can not delete them with Ftp in admin panel click on posts and tick the ones you want to delete and they will be moved in trash folder then click on trash and delete them permanently.

  3. Samantha_G
    Member
    Posted 6 months ago #

    Thanks govpatal. Although I'm aware of how to delete the posts manually using the bulk action via the dashboard, I was wondering if there was a quicker way to delete the posts to re-upload? There are currently over 1300 posts which amounts to about 70 pages of posts.

  4. fonglh
    Member
    Posted 6 months ago #

    You can use phpmyadmin to delete the posts from the database. phpmyadmin can usually be accessed from your host's control panel.

    You should only do this after backing up your database.

  5. govpatel
    Member
    Posted 6 months ago #

    You can try this plugin see if it works not tested.
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bulk-delete/

  6. Samantha_G
    Member
    Posted 6 months ago #

    Thanks everyone! I was able to delete the posts using govpatel's suggestion and was able to migrate my blog the second time successfully. Thank you for all of your suggestionss :-)

  7. govpatel
    Member
    Posted 6 months ago #

    You are welcome

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