PostPurge – Bulk Delete Posts

PostPurge – Bulk Delete Posts is designed for reliable cleanup of both small and very large WordPress sites.

Unlike a single bulk database operation, the plugin processes exactly one content item per AJAX request. The administrator can follow every item in a live activity window, pause the operation, resume it later or stop it. Progress is saved for the current administrator.

Main features

• Exact result count before any operation.
• Preview table with a sample of matched content.
• Quick test mode that checks up to 10 matches without changing content.
• Optional media test showing each linked file as deletable, shared/protected or unavailable.
• Real deletion to Trash by default, with optional permanent deletion and an extra confirmation.
• One post per request to reduce timeouts and peak server load.
• Pause, resume and stop controls.
• Automatic recovery of unfinished jobs after reloading the page.
• Filters can be combined using AND logic.
• Posts, pages and registered custom post types.
• Published, draft, pending, private, scheduled and Trash statuses.
• Date range or content older than a selected number of days.
• Categories, tags and registered custom taxonomies by term slug.
• Comment-count range.
• View-count range using the views column registered by the site’s active statistics plugin.
• URL, slug, numeric post ID, title and WordPress keyword search.
• Custom fields with equals, differs, contains, existence and numeric operators.
• Author, featured-image, include-ID and exclude-ID filters.
• Six built-in interface languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese.
• Automatic site-language selection with a manual language switcher.
• Optional deletion of media attached exclusively to permanently deleted posts, with shared-media protection.
• Media paths must be verified inside the local WordPress uploads directory; unsafe, non-local and symlinked paths are kept.
• Permanent expandable audit log, paginated in groups of 50 entries.
• Local-only media existence verification with no HTTP checks.

Safe workflow

1. Choose the content types and statuses, then add any optional filters.
2. Click Preview results and verify the exact count and sample.
3. Click Quick test (10), choose whether to verify linked media, and inspect the detailed checks.
4. Start the real deletion and keep Move to Trash selected when possible.
5. Watch the activity log, or pause and resume later.