Drupal 8: delete all nodes of the same type

Question

I have a need to remove all nodes of the same type in Drupal 8 (there are over 7k of nodes).

It wouldn\'t be a problem for Drupal 7 (DB query + node_del

Answer 1

The entity_delete_multiple is deprecated as of Drupal 8.0.x, will be removed before Drupal 9.0.0. Use the entity storage's delete() method to delete multiple entities:

// query all entities you want for example taxonomy term from tags vocabulary
$query = \Drupal::entityQuery('taxonomy_term');
$query->condition('vid', 'tags');
$tids = $query->execute();

$storage_handler = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage($entity_type);
$entities = $storage_handler->loadMultiple($tids);
$storage_handler->delete($entities);