lisa
(@contentiskey)
if you are referring to finding posts/products that you have deleted – then check in the posts table in the database (look for PHPMYADMIN).
for additional assistance with managing products created (if you are using WooCommerce plugin), please start a topic for the team most familiar: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/woocommerce/
To accelerate the process of emptying the WordPress trash, I’m considering deleting the 5,000 items directly from the CPanel. Can you guide me on how to do this?
Short answer: You can’t. It’s done through the WordPress admin area.
Longer answer: While it is possible to do I would highly recommend not doing it this way. You would need to do custom database queries to delete the entries, but there’s (many) more then one table that stores the data for products, so you’ll need to know each one, and run queries for each one.
That also doesn’t include any images that are attached to the products that you want to delete as well. Those will need to be deleted before you delete each product. You might also be able to delete them in bulk in the ‘Media’ area after the products are deleted by selecting media files that are not attached. Be careful with this though as not every non-attached media item will be from products/posts that have been deleted.
