Remove unused Post Types

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Zuletzt aktualisiert von Nigel vor 5 Jahren, 11 Monaten.

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November 19, 2018 at 8:09 am #1149067

Akhil

Hi,. pls advice, How do i remove this pls. i have more of this . its getting very messy at the back end, during preview i am force to select the options. Thanks

November 19, 2018 at 10:43 am #1149151

Nigel

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Hi Dee

I'm not sure what you expect to happen here.

Looks like you created a custom post type, made a Layout to use for the archive of that post type, then deleted the post type itself.

So when looking at your Layouts, the Layout for the archive can no longer find the post type, because you deleted it.

When you do that you will need to delete the Toolset content (i.e. Views, templates, Layouts etc.) that use the post type as well, if you are sure you will no longer use that post type (you could re-create it).

November 19, 2018 at 2:10 pm #1149213

Akhil

Hi Nigel.

Perhaps option to remove the post type [with double warning/ confirmations] if not found ?
whats your view ?

November 19, 2018 at 3:47 pm #1149269

Nigel

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I'm not sure what you mean.

You are seeing those warnings because the post type has already been removed.

I don't think we would want to automatically remove Layouts, Forms etc. where the post type they were set up with has been removed, because they can easily edited to be re-used with another post type rather than bin them and start from scratch.

November 27, 2018 at 7:05 am #1153602

Akhil

Hi Nigel., so in order to remove those leftovers, can i create a dummy cpt , assign them , then un-assigned them then delete the cpt, will that work ?

November 27, 2018 at 11:13 am #1153764

Nigel

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I must be missing something because this seems like a non-problem.

You register a CPT.
You create a Layout and assign it to display the CPT posts.
You deactivate the CPT.
The Layout still exists, but is assigned to something that no longer exists.

You can either delete the Layout, or edit it and change its usage so that it is used to display something else.

If you want to keep the Layout for some future use, don't want it assigned to any other post type, but don't to see the message that it is assigned to something that no longer is available, then change its usage and just uncheck the post type in question (screenshot).

What you describe sounds more complex than this, and I'm not sure what exactly the problem is.