How to remove orphaned ACF post meta data?

• gavin310

• January 25, 2020 at 11:50 pm

When removing a field, ACF post meta data remains. Is there an SQL query we can use that goes through the database and removes all orphaned ACF post meta data?

• John Huebner

• January 26, 2020 at 2:35 am

No, there isn’t a way to this. There is a very long topic on this subject here https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/flush-unused-custom-fields/

• gavin310

• January 26, 2020 at 6:28 pm

I’ve already gone back and search through all the old posts. Elliot has previously said this will be included in a future release. Can we at least get an update on it? Having this plugin create loads of unnecessary field data seems like it would be higher priority.

• John Huebner

• January 27, 2020 at 1:51 am

To get an answer from Elliot you would need to contact him, you can try here https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/contact/. This is mostly a user forum and E does not spend a lot of time here so that he can focus on the plugin.