Delete Translation Jobs

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Problem:

If you're experiencing issues with unnecessary Translation Jobs and are considering deleting them directly from the database, we recommend against it due to the complexity of data storage across multiple tables.

Solution:

We advise you to follow these steps after ensuring you have a full backup of your site:

1. Navigate to WPML >> Translation Management >> Translation Jobs tab.
2. Select the Translation Jobs you wish to remove.
3. Use the Bulk options to cancel them in bulk, or delete them individually.

Additionally, you can cancel "In progress" jobs by going to WPML >> Support >> Troubleshooting and clicking the Cancel in-progress automatic jobs button.
For more details on how WPML handles database tables, please visit our documentation: WPML Tables Documentation.

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This topic is split from https://wpml.org/forums/topic/translating-cookie-policy-generated-by-complianz/

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Last updated by Tia 5 days, 8 hours ago.

Assisted by: Bigul.

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June 30, 2025 at 11:02 am #17183402
Tia	Can you help me delete Translation Jobs that are not helpful? If there's no way to delete jobs via the user interface, perhaps I can delete rows from the wp_icl tables with database access? Regards Eyal
June 30, 2025 at 11:33 am #17183676
Bigul WPML Supporter since 01/2013 Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Europe/Vienna (GMT+02:00)	Hi Eyal, Welcome to the WPML support forum. I will do my best to help you resolve the issue. Deleting translation jobs directly from the database is not recommended, as the related data is stored across multiple tables. For more details, please refer to this documentation: https://wpml.org/documentation/support/wpml-tables/ Please follow these steps after taking a full site backup: - Go to WPML >> Translation Management >> Translation Jobs tab. - Select the translation jobs you want to remove. - Cancel them in bulk using the Bulk options, or delete them one by one Also, we cancel the "In progress" jobs from WPML >> Support >> Troubleshooting by clicking the Cancel in-progress automatic jobs button. -- Thanks! Bigul
June 30, 2025 at 12:38 pm #17184267
Tia	I deleted the jobs from Translation Management > Translation Jobs tab. I was then able to translate what I needed directly in String Translation and to delete the Cookie Purpose strings (which was causing all cookies to get the same purpose) from string translation, which are now handled in functions.php with the cmplz_document_html filter. Thank you for your help.