Learn how to manage and streamline your website's posts with WordPress's user-friendly functions. Understand how to delete and restore posts, and why it's crucial to maintain your site's content for optimal storage use and site organization.
Key Insights
- The Sidebar Menu in WordPress allows users to navigate to 'All Posts', presenting a comprehensive list of all posts made on the site.
- Users can easily delete unwanted posts by using the 'Trash' function that appears in the sub-menu when hovering over a post title.
- Trashed posts are not permanently deleted and can be restored, allowing users to undo accidental deletions or restore old content.
- To permanently delete a post, users can navigate to the 'Trash', hover over the desired post, and select 'Delete Permanently'. This action is irreversible.
- Regularly deleting unnecessary posts is recommended as it helps manage storage space, which users pay for.
- Noble Desktop offers web development and web design training to help users maximize their use of WordPress and create their own engaging, responsive sites.
Delete and Restore
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Move to Trash
Posts → hover → Trash. Soft delete — recoverable for 30 days.
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Empty Trash to Permanently Delete
Trash filter → Empty Trash for irreversible removal.
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Restore from Trash
Click Trash filter → Restore on the post you want back.
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Adjust Trash Retention
Edit wp-config.php: define('EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS', 7) for shorter retention.
Deleting & Restoring Posts
I’m going to go to the Sidebar Menu, hover over Posts and go to All Posts.
It’s going to give me a list of all of the posts ever created for this particular site.
You’ll notice there’s the Hawaii post that I’ve created. However, there is a "Hello World" post that came from the installation, so I probably don’t want that there. But I might have created another post on my own that I want to trash.
It’s very easy to delete posts. You’ll notice when I hover over any of these list choices, there’s this little sub-menu that pops up. And Trash in the red will allow me to delete this. However, if I click on Trash, not only does it give me the ability to undo this, but the post is not truly gone. You’ll notice I have one post that’s published, but I also have one in the trash.
I can go into the trash, and now if I hover, I can restore and put it back into its time sequence of when it was created initially. However, if I want to get rid of it (I recommend doing so because you’re paying for storage), I can click on Delete Permanently. Once I do this, it’s gone—I can’t retrieve it anymore.
The message now reads, “No posts in the trash, " and you’ll notice I’ve got one living post, and it’s published. If I go back here, that’s all we’ve got.
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