{"id":74926,"date":"2012-03-27T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=74926"},"modified":"2012-03-26T20:14:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T00:14:50","slug":"how-to-add-a-delete-post-link-to-your-wordpress-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/how-to-add-a-delete-post-link-to-your-wordpress-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Add a Delete Post Link to Your WordPress Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Post<\/a>
\nSome sites, especially those that allow contributors to post, may need an easy way to delete posts from time to time.<\/p>\n

In order to make it as easy as possible, of course, the best thing to do would be to put a \u201cDelete\u201d button right on the post itself. Of course this delete link should only be viewable by logged in users with a certain permission level, much like an \u201cEdit\u201d button that many themes use.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how you can go about doing that.<\/p>\n

First, place the following code in you functions file after the opening <php tag. (Appearance > Editor > Theme Functions \u2013 functions.php)<\/p>\n

function wp_delete_post_link($link = 'Delete This', $before = '', $after = '')
\n{
\nglobal $post;
\nif ( $post->post_type == 'page' ) {
\nif ( !current_user_can( 'edit_page', $post->ID ) )
\nreturn;
\n} else {
\nif ( !current_user_can( 'edit_post', $post->ID ) )
\nreturn;
\n}
\n$link = \"<a href='\" . wp_nonce_url( get_bloginfo('url') . \"\/wp-admin\/post.php?action=delete&amp;post=\" . $post->ID, 'delete-post_' . $post->ID) . \"'>\".$link.\"<\/a>\";
\necho $before . $link . $after;
\n}<\/code><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Next, you will need to put some code in your theme files where you would like your delete link to show up.<\/p>\n

I put the following code in my single.php code just above where the content of the post starts. (Appearance > Editor > Single Post – single.php)<\/p>\n

<?php wp_delete_post_link('Delete This', '<p>', '<\/p>'); ?><\/code><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The '<p>', '<\/p>'<\/code> in the code gives it space above it and below, but if you don\u2019t want that space, then you can take it out:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<?php wp_delete_post_link('Delete This'); ?><\/code><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You could also put this on your Main Index Template, for example, if you wanted the link to show up on the home page too. (Appearance > Editor > Main Index Template – index.php)<\/p>\n\n

And here\u2019s what it looks like.<\/p>\n

\"Post<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Thanks to web-templates.nu for the code.<\/p>\n\n

Photo: Delete sticker icon. Vector illustration.<\/a> From BigStock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Need an easy way to delete posts? Here\u2019s your answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84404,"featured_media":74928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-74926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216260,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74926\/revisions\/216260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74926"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=74926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}