Demo data cleanup deletes all site content
Deleting demo data also wipes the site's own posts, pages, users, settings and theme content.
14 public reports · first reported 16 October 2010 · last reported 9 March 2022
What's going wrong
Site owners using Demo Data Creator report that clicking the delete demo data button removed far more than the sample content it generated. Posts, pages, menus, categories, users, theme settings and in one case the whole site were lost, sometimes after weeks of work. Reporters include developers on test installs, live multisite networks and small blogs, and several say they only learned of the risk after the damage was done. Some lost admin access and had to reinstall WordPress and restore from backup. The opportunity is a cleanup tool that removes only records the generator created, with a preview and an undo, so owners can trust demo data on sites that already hold real content.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports.
Products affected
Demo Data Creator.
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Who has this problem
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