say this:

wp post delete --force $(wp post list --post_type=product --format=ids)

I found out that it's far more fast and performant than deleting posts from admin.

But I was wandering: any differences between the cli and admin ways? For example, will that cli command also delete metadata associated with deleted posts?

say this:

wp post delete --force $(wp post list --post_type=product --format=ids)

I found out that it's far more fast and performant than deleting posts from admin.

But I was wandering: any differences between the cli and admin ways? For example, will that cli command also delete metadata associated with deleted posts?

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• 3 They both call the same functions internally, but one way to test this is to just do it and check if the post meta is still present – Tom J Nowell ♦ Commented Nov 25, 2019 at 15:51

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In short, yes. However, if you run into an issue like custom fields or media hanging around, you could use:

wp post meta delete