Title: Force Delete Posts
Author: Liam Stewart
Published: <strong>January 27, 2018</strong>
Last modified: December 23, 2025

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# Force Delete Posts

 By [Liam Stewart](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gingeds/)

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

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

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

## Description

Deleting Posts has never been so fast! This lightweight plugin adds the ability 
for administrators to instantly delete posts by adding a Force Delete Button to 
the Post List for Pages, Posts, and all Custom Post Types. Clicking the Force Delete
Button will delete the item instantly by skipping the trash.

### Features

 * One Click delete posts & pages
 * Instantly Skip Trash
 * Simple UI / UX

### Found an issue?

[Click here to report an issue](https://github.com/liamstewart23/WordPressForceDeletePost/issues)

### Contribute

[Visit the GitHub repo here](https://github.com/liamstewart23/WordPressForceDeletePost)

## Screenshots

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## Installation

Activate and you’re set!

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Perfect!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-8548/)󠁿

 [Chinmay Rajyaguru](https://profiles.wordpress.org/inis/) June 7, 2021 1 reply

It’s awesome. I’ve the couple of posts to delete, but I was getting error. This 
plugin removed in a sec. Thanks a lot!

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### 󠀁[Excelent plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excelent-plugin-426/)󠁿

 [Allyson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/allysonsouza/) May 14, 2021

I was with a bug, with posts being created with subscriber as authors, breaking 
the WordPress default delete. This plugin was able to delete those posts.

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### 󠀁[Works great](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-great-6954/)󠁿

 [Dave Romsey (goto10)](https://profiles.wordpress.org/goto10/) July 17, 2020

Handle little plugin that allows you to quickly permanently delete a post.

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### 󠀁[Does the job](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-the-job-689/)󠁿

 [mindfrakker](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mindfrakker/) May 12, 2020

And it works with the latest version

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### 󠀁[works good!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-good-301/)󠁿

 [M.cartoon](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mcartoon/) March 26, 2020 1 reply

I had a prublem that I could not delete posts and pages. This plugin did the work!

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### 󠀁[Not compatible with WP version 5.2.2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-compatible-with-wp-version-5-2-2/)󠁿

 [ThermalStudios](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thermalstudios/) June 28, 2019 
1 reply

Fails to install with zip upload. Not recognized by admin UI (plugin search).

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## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

 *   [ Liam Stewart ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gingeds/)

[Translate “Force Delete Posts” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/force-delete-posts)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 2.1.1

 * Fixes issue with PHP <7.1

#### 2.1.0

 * Updated deletion confirmation message to include post type singular label

#### 2.0.0

 * Complete plugin rewrite to modernize the codebase

#### 1.1.2

 * WordPress 5.3 support

#### 1.1.1

 * Icon color change

#### 1.1.0

 * Codebase cleanup

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial Release

## Meta

 *  Version **2.1.1**
 *  Last updated **4 months ago**
 *  Active installations **300+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.0.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  PHP version ** 5.6 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [delete](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/delete/)[force](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/force/)
   [post](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/)[posts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)
   [trash](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/trash/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/force-delete-posts/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.4 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  6 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/force-delete-posts/reviews/?filter=5)
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 *  [  1 1-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/force-delete-posts/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Liam Stewart ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gingeds/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

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