Title: Quick Empty Trash
Author: Hugh Lashbrooke
Published: <strong>February 8, 2014</strong>
Last modified: December 3, 2018

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# quick-empty-trash

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-empty-trash/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-empty-trash/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-empty-trash/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/quick-empty-trash/)

## Description

This plugin has been closed as of October 11, 2024 and is not available for download.
This closure is permanent. Reason: Author Request.

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Time saver](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/time-saver-242/)󠁿

 [direxion](https://profiles.wordpress.org/direxion/) October 15, 2019 1 reply

Didn’t work well for me having to delete +/- 2800 WooCommerce Products. The page
was loading and never finishing. I finally used another plugin : “Advanced Database
Cleaner”. It cleans the trash posts. And it took like one second !

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/49bc79ad5aaadb0ab89798470c4a113360e1fc88e52e0308e6b19438e8ea3133?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Ah thank you!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ah-thank-you/)󠁿

 [Volvera](https://profiles.wordpress.org/emresert86/) December 11, 2017

This plugin saved me soooo much time. It works as promised.

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### 󠀁[this is gold](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-is-gold/)󠁿

 [ps3hero](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ps3hero/) September 15, 2016

It is so annoying without this plugin.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Very useful!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-713/)󠁿

 [Noahj Champion](https://profiles.wordpress.org/noahj-champion/) September 3, 2016

This tiny thing gets a lot of productivity enhancement love from me!

 [ Read all 8 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/quick-empty-trash/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Quick Empty Trash” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Hugh Lashbrooke ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hlashbrooke/)

[Translate “Quick Empty Trash” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/quick-empty-trash)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quick-empty-trash/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/quick-empty-trash/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/quick-empty-trash/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/quick-empty-trash/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **8 years ago**
 *  Active installations **N/A**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.0.25**
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-empty-trash/advanced/)