Title: Please remove delete button
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Please remove delete button

 *  Resolved [Clarus Dignus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clarus-dignus/)
 * (@clarus-dignus)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-remove-delete-button/)
 * Please consider removing the “delete” button and replacing it with “trash” or
   at least provide both.
 * I lost a significant amount of work and time when I accidentally deleted my home
   page when bulk deleting a series of test pages. I disabled the plugin expecting
   to find the page in trash but it was deleted permanently (and no, I hadn’t backed
   up recently enough)
 * Granted, this is a human error alone but intelligent design anticipates and counters
   human errors such as mine.
 * It’s a fantastic plugin. Take my request into consideration,
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-page-manager/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-page-manager/)

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 *  [Uncategorized Creations](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uncategorized-creations/)
 * (@uncategorized-creations)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-remove-delete-button/#post-5091689)
 * First, really sorry about the deletion.
 * We already had feedback on the delete process in APM. Trash is not an option 
   at the moment for both technical and design reasons.
 * However, we wish to enhance et strengthen this process to avoid the kind of problem
   you had.
 * It’s now a question of having the time to do it.
 * Regards.
 *  Thread Starter [Clarus Dignus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clarus-dignus/)
 * (@clarus-dignus)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-remove-delete-button/#post-5091751)
 * A basic JavaScript OK/Cancel alert box would work just as well on the interim:
 *     ```
       if (confirm('Page(s) will be deleted permanently. Page(s) will not be sent to trash therefore restoration will not be possible. Are you sure you want to delete page(s)?  ')) {
           // PHP code here to delete page.
       } else {
           // Do nothing.
       }
       ```
   
 * Message boxes are ubiquitous to the admin area.

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 * Last reply from: [Clarus Dignus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clarus-dignus/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-remove-delete-button/#post-5091751)
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