Title: Delete Post Link Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Delete Post Link * [acondiff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acondiff/) * (@acondiff) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-post-link/) * This function which adds a Delete link to the admin should work but it doesn’t. * ``` function delete_post_link() { global $post; echo "ID . "&action%3Ddelete&", 'delete-post_' . $post->ID) . "'>Delete"; } ``` * I get this: Are you sure you want to do this? Please try again. * I think it has to do with wp_nonce_url. Any ideas? * Thanks. Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * [kristarella](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kristarella/) * (@kristarella) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-post-link/#post-1587911) * I second this question. * I’ve tried `href="' . get_bloginfo("url") . '/wp-admin/post.php?post=' . $post- >ID . '&action=trash"` and `href="' . wp_nonce_url( get_bloginfo("url") . "/wp- admin/post.php?post=" . $post->ID . "&action=trash") . '"` Both of which bring me to the same failure notice page with a link back to the page I was just on saying “Please try again”. * The link structure of action=trash is slightly different to acondiff, above; I changed mine to replicate the link structure in the WP admin. * [adanahmad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adanahmad/) * (@adanahmad) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-post-link/#post-1587918) * using this at functions.php * ``` function wp_delete_post_link($link = 'Delete This', $before = '', $after = '') { global $post; if ( $post->post_type == 'page' ) { if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_page', $post->ID ) ) return; } else { if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_post', $post->ID ) ) return; } $message = "Are your sure you want to delete ".get_the_title($post->ID)." ?"; $delLink = wp_nonce_url( get_bloginfo('wpurl') . "/wp-admin/post.php?action=delete&post=" . $post->ID, 'delete-post_' . $post->ID); $link = "".$link.""; echo $before . $link . $after; } ``` * and calling with this * ``` ', '

'); ?> ``` * [wob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wob/) * (@wob) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-post-link/#post-1587919) * I tried this ^ * When I press the link I get a pop up asking me to confirm, I then press “Ok”. Then I get a “WordPress Failure Notice”, just a blank page with the message: “ Are you sure you want to do this?” and a link beneath that says: “Please try again.” which leads back to the list post view. * Any ideas how to fix this? * [kristarella](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kristarella/) * (@kristarella) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-post-link/#post-1587920) * wob – I get the same message, don’t know how to fix it 🙁 * [haveboard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haveboard/) * (@haveboard) * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-post-link/#post-1587927) * Same here. wp_delete_post_link() doesn’t seem to work. * “Are you sure you want to do this? * Please try again.” * No luck here. * [sainib](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sainib/) * (@sainib) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-post-link/#post-1587933) * So the problem is with nonce..WP is checking for the nonce with param name = _wpnonce and pre-hash value to be in this format (without brackets of course )[‘ trash-‘ . $post->post_type . ‘_’ . $post->ID ] change this line of code in function provided above by adanaahmad * `$delLink = wp_nonce_url( get_bloginfo('wpurl') . "/wp-admin/post.php?action= delete&post=" . $post->ID, 'delete-post_' . $post->ID);` * to {Changed nonce and action=trash} * `$delLink = wp_nonce_url( get_bloginfo('wpurl') . "/wp-admin/post.php?action= trash&post=" . $post->ID, 'trash-' . $post->post_type . '_' . $post->ID);` * So your function becomes .. * ``` function wp_delete_post_link($link = 'Delete This', $before = '', $after = '') { global $post; if ( $post->post_type == 'page' ) { if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_page', $post->ID ) ) return; } else { if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_post', $post->ID ) ) return; } $message = "Are your sure you want to delete ".get_the_title($post->ID)." ?"; $delLink = wp_nonce_url( get_bloginfo('wpurl') . "/wp-admin/post.php?action=trash&post=" . $post->ID, 'trash-' . $post->post_type . '_' . $post->ID); $link = "".$link.""; echo $before . $link . $after; } ``` * [sainib](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sainib/) * (@sainib) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-post-link/#post-1587934) * Heres a better and ‘tested’ version of the function.. * ``` function wp_delete_post_link($link = 'Delete This', $before = '', $after = '', $title="Move this item to the Trash") { global $post; if ( $post->post_type == 'page' ) { if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_page' ) ) return; } else { if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_post' ) ) return; } $delLink = wp_nonce_url( site_url() . "/wp-admin/post.php?action=trash&post=" . $post->ID, 'trash-' . $post->post_type . '_' . $post->ID); $link = ''.$link.""; return $before . $link . $after; } ``` * [gonzalom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gonzalom/) * (@gonzalom) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-post-link/#post-1587936) * Im having trouble with both these functions. When using an admin user, no problem. But when i try to delete using an author user (a post that user created), y receive a wordpress ‘error’ message * [sainib](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sainib/) * (@sainib) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-post-link/#post-1587937) * Try changing edit_page and edit_post to edit_pages and edit_posts (plural) * I checked wordpress documentation again just now and those are the correct capabilities. My GUESS is that function current_user_can returns true for admin without checking capability since admin has access to everything. SO give that a try. * If that does not work, try changing the capability to role name.. so change this * ``` if ( $post->post_type == 'page' ) { if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_page' ) ) return; } else { if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_post' ) ) return; } ``` * TO * ``` if ( !current_user_can( 'administrator' ) && !current_user_can( 'editor' )){ return; } ``` * Hope this helps.. * [gonzalom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gonzalom/) * (@gonzalom) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-post-link/#post-1587938) * ok, i was able to solve this. It had nothing to do with the code here, but i had disabled user from wp-admin and thus they couldn’t execute this link. Thanks anyway. * By the way, I wasn’t able to implement the alert messages before deleting. Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) The topic ‘Delete Post Link’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [delete](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/delete/) * [link](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/link/) * [post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post/) * [wp_nonce_url](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp_nonce_url/) * 10 replies * 7 participants * Last reply from: [gonzalom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gonzalom/) * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-post-link/#post-1587938) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics