How to bulk delete old entries using WP-CLI?

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Hello @michaeledi - the listing of entries and the exporting of entries in the command line is the same as it is in the WordPress admin dashboard. You can’t show entries based on a start and end date, and the start and end date options are only available on export.

I think you will need to do this in two steps using the CLI:

  1. export the entries to a csv file using the --start_date and --end_date parameters
  2. read the entry IDs from that csv file into your wp gf entry delete command

I tried for a little bit to get this exactly right, but could only come up with a hacky method the relied upon me knowing which column in the CSV contains the entry ID. Someone with better shell skills could definitely make this happen. I will leave this open in case someone can add their own thoughts or approach. Thank you.