Basically I have around 4000 pages on my wordpress site and I have identified 1320 are duplicates.
I know I can go select each and every one manually and then bulk move them to the trash etc but does anyone know of a more time efficient way to do this?
Perhaps a MYSQL query to delete all the duplicates pages?
An example of the urls is as follows:
(Original)
/page/
(Duplicate)
/page-2/ and sometimes even /page-3/
There must be a way to mass delete all pages with the added -2 or -3
Thanks for any and all help.
*edit
It said there was an error with that code however I managed to come up with this…
DELETE a.*
FROM wp_posts AS a
INNER JOIN (
SELECT post_title, MIN( id ) AS min_id
FROM wp_posts
WHERE post_type = 'page'
AND post_status = 'publish'
GROUP BY post_title
HAVING COUNT( * ) > 1
) AS b ON b.post_title = a.post_title
AND b.min_id <> a.id
AND a.post_type = 'page'
AND a.post_status = 'publish'
This managed to get rid of around 550 of the duplicates but for some reason there are still quite a lot of duplicate pages left
I created pages depending on locations and I’ve just realised that I have pages such as
Berwick upon Tweed
and
Berwick-Upon-Tweed
I’d Ideally like to delete the pages with the – in the title as well
I haven’t used it myself but there is a plugin that says it can do this here.