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Last updated by Andreas W. 1 year, 9 months ago.

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September 15, 2023 at 8:05 pm #14405403

jessicaK

Using WPML and WCML, I translated a few of the products, pages and terms. Then I made the decision to remove everything and start over, so I did a WPML reset on my website as instructed in the manual (https://wpml.org/docs/getting-started-guide/language-setup/deleting-languages-and-plugin-data/). Yes, all the translated data has been reset, and the table has been deleted, but the posts' and terms' contents have not been removed. I need to correctly erase them without doing it manually.

FYI, currently the WPML is not configured.

September 15, 2023 at 8:19 pm #14405423

Andreas W.
WPML Supporter since 12/2018

Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) German (Deutsch )

Timezone: America/Lima (GMT-05:00)

Hello,

In order to delete this data WPML needs to be active and you should see an option to remove the old content at WPML > Languages.

Guide:
https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/language-setup/deleting-languages-and-plugin-data-by-doing-a-wpml-reset-on-your-site/

Now, I did honestly not test this in this case, after a reset, but as you can see in the documentation, the content should be removed, before taking the reset.

It might be that if you enable WPML now, there is nothing showing up to remove or remove will not work, as the language information was erased already.

In such a case, you would need to remove the content manually from the site.

Best regards
Andreas