Large bulk deletes are slow and time out
Deleting large numbers of posts, users or meta rows is very slow, times out, or removes only about 30 records per run.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
5 public reports · first reported 31 March 2023 · last reported 19 June 2025
What's going wrong
Owners of large sites, including a daily newspaper with over 100,000 posts and a news site with about 35,000 auto-imported posts, report that deletions take far too long.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 5 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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