easy accidental deletion

  • pgrandstaff

    (@pgrandstaff)


    10 years, 6 months ago

    Using this plugin, I just deleted all the subpages on a site. That wasn’t what I wanted to do. Luckily I had a very recent backup.

    My aim was to delete all children of one post. I expanded all, selected all, collapsed all. Then I unchecked all the pages I didn’t want to delete children under, expanded the page I was interested in and unchecked the parent. Delete. It deleted all the collapsed pages.

    Logically, I figured that by deselecting a collapsed parent page, it would deselect all the children under it. It did not. Nor did it warn me that I was about to delete pages that were not displayed on screen due to being collapsed.

    Finally, the problem was compounded by the fact that the pages were actually deleted rather than being moved to the trash.

    I hope a future version can address these issues and make it harder to accidentally delete large portions of a site.

    http://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-page-manager/

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  • Uncategorized Creations

    (@uncategorized-creations)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    Thank you for your feedback 🙂 I’ll report it in the request list (obviously adding a warning should a quick win).

    Please note that selection doesn’t impact deleting process : if you delete a parent page, all subpages will be deleted selected or not.

    Quick question : Were you connected as admin ?

    Zwille

    (@zwille)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    We have the same accidential deletion here – all subpages lost! Without the trash bin your are lost. Why don’t you use the build in trash, so after restoring deleted pages only the structure is lost?
    I think that is a BIG BUG! Users must be informed when deleting pages within the plugin.

    Uncategorized Creations

    (@uncategorized-creations)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi, sorry about the accidental deletion 🙁

    We lack of time but again adding a warning message when deleting has to be a priority quick win.

    Now to talk on why we don’t use trash : if run tests on trashing pages in WordPress, you’ll probably run in the same problems we had. Eg. trash 3 subpages, then delete their former parent page, then restore the trashed subpages, WordPress will choose as new parent the previous sibling of the deleted parent page. And they’re many more. Wev’e worked on systems to work these problems out but we were not able to have enough time to implement them.

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