Title: Completely Delete
Author: Yoren Chang
Published: <strong>2013-12-30</strong>
Last modified: 2015-04-11

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Completely Delete

 By [Yoren Chang](https://profiles.wordpress.org/1fixdotio/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/completely-delete.0.8.3.zip)

 * [Details](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/completely-delete/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/completely-delete/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/completely-delete/#installation)
 * [Development](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/completely-delete/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/completely-delete/)

## Description

This plugin is made for:

 * Trash / Delete all children posts of a post, if the post type is hierarchical.
 * Restore all children posts of a trashed post, if the post type is hierarchical.
 * Trash / Delete nav items.
 * Optional: Trash all attachments when trash a post. Enable this feature on plugin
   settings page.
 * Optional: Delete all attachments when deleting a trashed post. Enable this feature
   on plugin settings page.
 * TODO – Optional: Delete all terms a post belongs to, if those terms are empty.
   Enable this feature on plugin settings page.
 * TODO – Select which roles are allowed to perform this action on plugin settings
   page.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * A “Completely Delete” link will be added to the row actions
 * [[
 * A “Completely Delete” link will be added to the left of Update button
 * [[
 * A settings page for this plugin

## Installation

#### Using The WordPress Dashboard

 1. Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
 2. Search for ‘completely-delete’
 3. Click ‘Install Now’
 4. Activate the plugin on the Plugin dashboard

#### Uploading in WordPress Dashboard

 1. Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
 2. Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
 3. Select `completely-delete.zip` from your computer
 4. Click ‘Install Now’
 5. Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

#### Using FTP

 1. Download `completely-delete.zip`
 2. Extract the `completely-delete` directory to your computer
 3. Upload the `completely-delete` directory to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 4. Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

## Reviews

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

### 󠀁[Still working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/still-working-87/)󠁿

 [Josserand](https://profiles.wordpress.org/josserand/) 2020-04-16

I needed to delete hundreds of child pages, this plugin helped me do it with 2 clicks.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/634ecb941b7365b734319def79884fbf79359b016f2cd3bfabb17a24c6a34169?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Nice and easy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nice-and-easy-139/)󠁿

 [chrishaff](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrishaff/) 2016-09-03

Does what it says. Trashing attachments is on by default but can be changed that
in options. The roadmap looks good. Hopefully that happens.

 [ Read all 4 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/completely-delete/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Completely Delete” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Yoren Chang ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/1fixdotio/)
 *   [ yoren ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/yoren/)

[Translate “Completely Delete” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/completely-delete)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 0.8.3

 * Fix minor bugs when trash/untrash posts.

#### 0.8.2

 * Fix a minor bug when untrash posts.

#### 0.8.1

 * Display Completely Delete link only when the user with the delete post capability.

#### 0.8.0

 * Use 3-digit version number.
 * Enable the “trash / delete attachments with a post” options by default.
 * Remove weDevs Settings API wrapper class. Use WordPress Settings API directly.
 * Debug and improve performance via Scrutinizer.

#### 0.7

 * Display an admin notice when plugin activated.
 * Add uninstall functions.

#### 0.6

 * Remove assets folder, which should not be included.
 * Translation for Traditional Chinese has been added.

#### 0.5.6

 * The first version

## Meta

 *  Version **0.8.3**
 *  Last updated **11 ел ago**
 *  Active installations **50+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.1.42**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/completely-delete/)
 * Tags
 * [pages](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pages/)[posts](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/completely-delete/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Yoren Chang ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/1fixdotio/)
 *   [ yoren ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/yoren/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/completely-delete/)

## Donate

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