Sitecore Powershell script to unlock all locked items in Sitecore

This post provides Sitecore PowerShell script to unlock all items locked in Sitecore by content authors.

If you are looking for a way to unlock all the items which are locked in Sitecore then here is the solution. This PowerShell script goes through all the items under a root node and unlocks them if they are locked.

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Sitecore Powershell script to unlock all locked items

$sourcePath = "/sitecore/content/Site1/Home"
function RunScript
{
    $items = Get-ChildItem -Path $sourcePath -Recurse
    $rootItem = Get-Item -Path $sourcePath
    $items = $items + $rootItem

    foreach ($item in $items)
    {
        foreach ($version in $item.Versions.GetVersions($true))
        {
            if($version.Locking.IsLocked())
            {
                $version.Editing.BeginEdit();
                $version.Locking.Unlock();
                $version.Editing.EndEdit();
                Write-Host "Item un-locked:" $item.ID $version.Language;
            }
        }
    }
}

$items = RunScript