I’m trying to mass delete 4000 images in a wordpress website. WP itself sets the max to 999, which would work fine and take a few minutes to delete them via the backend. However, I get REQUEST URI TOO LARGE because the backend form uses GET instead of POST.
How can I use WP-CLI to perform the operation if it’s possible and ensure the integrity of the WP database. In other words, I don’t want to run an SQL command.
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Method 1
From the WP-CLI documentation about wp post delete:
wp post delete --force $(wp post list --post_type='attachment' --format=ids)
See wp post list for additional information.
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