First, it’s not necessary to piece together the deletion URL as the tutorial does, when there’s already a built-in function: get_delete_post_link() (function reference). You could use it as follows:
<?php
if( is_user_logged_in() ) :
$delete_link = get_delete_post_link(); ?>
<a href="<?php echo $delete_link; ?>">Delete post</a>
<?php endif; ?>
Then, use add_action() in your theme’s functions.php file to produce the redirection:
add_action( 'trashed_post', 'trashed_post_redirect' );
function trashed_post_redirect ($post_id) {
wp_redirect( home_url() );
exit;
}
This will redirect you to the home URL: you can change that if you wish.
EDIT: Actually, just realised that adding this action will affect deletion on the backend as well. I have to dash, but I’ll think about it some more (or perhaps someone else will jump in with their thoughts).
Okay, modify the above slightly. In the relevant template:
<?php
if( is_user_logged_in() ) :
$delete_link = add_query_arg( 'notadmin', 'true', get_delete_post_link() ); ?>
<a href="<?php echo $delete_link; ?>">Delete post</a>
<?php endif; ?>
In functions.php:
add_action( 'trashed_post', 'trashed_post_redirect' );
function trashed_post_redirect($post_id) {
if ( filter_input( INPUT_GET, 'notadmin', FILTER_VALIDATE_BOOLEAN ) ) :
wp_redirect( home_url() );
exit;
endif;
}
As stated above, this snippet will redirect you to the home URL.
So – this works awesome! Thank you.
I would like to limit this to one specific category. Can you show what I need to do add for that?
If you mean that you only want a delete post link to appear on posts which are in a certain category, then you would modify the if statement in the first snippet to something like this:
if( is_user_logged_in() && in_category( '[some category]' ) ) :
Replace [some category] with either (1) the name of the category or (2) the slug of the category or (3) the ID of the category.
