{"id":2265,"date":"2026-03-21T02:14:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=2265"},"modified":"2026-03-21T02:14:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:44:01","password":"","slug":"why-does-delete-on-manage-not-remove-the-row","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb\/why-does-delete-on-manage-not-remove-the-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Delete on Manage not remove the row?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Delete performs a&nbsp;<strong>soft delete<\/strong>: it sets the workflow status to&nbsp;<strong>deleted<\/strong>. The row remains in the database but is hidden from the workflow list and from duplicate-name checks. This keeps history and avoids breaking references. If you need to fully remove data, that would require an admin or DB-level process outside the standard UI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delete performs a&nbsp;soft delete: it sets the workflow status to&nbsp;deleted. The row remains in the database but is hidden from the workflow list and from duplicate-name checks. This keeps history and avoids breaking references. If you need to fully remove data, that would require an admin or DB-level process outside the standard UI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[1964],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2265","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-workflow-builder"],"year_month":"2026-07","word_count":57,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin","author_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Workflow Builder","term_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb-cat\/workflow-builder\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}