Title: Pruning the archive
Last modified: December 27, 2021

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# Pruning the archive

 *  Resolved [timjh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timjh/)
 * (@timjh)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pruning-the-archive/)
 * Is there way to delete old newsletters from the archive? As well as saving space,
   this might also reduce the time taken to generate an archive page. Is there an
   API to do such deletion?

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 *  Plugin Support [Dani F. a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielinhou/)
 * (@danielinhou)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pruning-the-archive/#post-15199321)
 * Hi there [@timjh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timjh/) 👋🏽!
 * Thank you for reaching out to MailPoet Support!
 * > Is there way to delete old newsletters from the archive? As well as saving 
   > space, this might also reduce the time taken to generate an archive page. Is
   > there an API to do such deletion?
 * I have checked [our API documents](https://github.com/mailpoet/mailpoet/tree/master/doc)
   and it seems that you cannot use to interact (delete) old newsletters.
 * You’re also welcome to add it as a suggestion here [https://feedback.mailpoet.com](https://feedback.mailpoet.com)
 * Our team will take it into account when discussing new features and improvements
   for the plugin 🙂
 * Alternatively, if you are familiar with SQL you might want to delete the newsletters
   directly from your database.
 * Cheers!
 *  Thread Starter [timjh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timjh/)
 * (@timjh)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pruning-the-archive/#post-15200648)
 * Thanks for your quick response. I have done as you suggest and created a feature
   request.
 * Meanwhile, an opportunity to brush up my SQL beckons…

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 * Last reply from: [timjh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timjh/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pruning-the-archive/#post-15200648)
 * Status: resolved