Title: Deleting Draft Posts/Pages
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Deleting Draft Posts/Pages

 *  [stagg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stagg/)
 * (@stagg)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-draft-postspages/)
 * Any idea how I can delete draft posts and pages. Can’t find anything in the docs
   but probably just don’t know what to look for. I don’t want to actually publish
   and then delete. That creates new problems.
 * Appreciate

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 *  [iscifi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iscifi/)
 * (@iscifi)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-draft-postspages/#post-589585)
 * Just use Manage pages, or manage posts and you can delete the post, click on 
   edit next to the post title, scroll down and you should see DELETE THIS POST 
   or DELETE THIS PAGE
 *  [Bodhipaksa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haecceity/)
 * (@haecceity)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-draft-postspages/#post-589586)
 * I have the same problem. I’ve been renaming the posts things like “Recycle this
   post” so that I can create a new post by overwriting the old one. It seems like
   draft posts should be listed under “manage” in the usual way (although marked
   as “draft”) so that we can delete them in the usual way.
 *  [Bodhipaksa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haecceity/)
 * (@haecceity)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-draft-postspages/#post-589587)
 * Nope. They don’t show up in the list of posts. However, I found that if I searched
   for the title under “manage” the post will come up and can be deleted as normal.
 *  [iscifi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iscifi/)
 * (@iscifi)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-draft-postspages/#post-589591)
 * the should be listed under post, e.g your DRAFTS, again like other issues plugins
   cause issues as well as give you extended use of WP 🙂 are you running the standard
   wp-admin or someones themed version of it?
 * You do not need to publish them to delete them, just click on the draft, and 
   at the bottom of the DRAFT it should have DELETE THIS DRAFT. I just did it on
   my live blog about 2 minutes ago 🙂
 * cheers
 *  Thread Starter [stagg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stagg/)
 * (@stagg)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-draft-postspages/#post-589640)
 * Thanks for the help. I am running WP 2.2.
 * I did the search suggestion and the draft then shows up in the so I can edit,
   view or delete it. There is no delete option such as Delete This Draft at the
   bottom of the lsit of drafts.
 * But my problem is solved. Thanks again.
 *  [Bodhipaksa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haecceity/)
 * (@haecceity)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-draft-postspages/#post-589772)
 * I also have no “delete this draft” option at the foot of a draft. I’m running
   the standard admin theme.
 *  [Rok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rok/)
 * (@rok)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-draft-postspages/#post-589821)
 * Just click the draf post, it’ll open and the select deleted from the sidebar.
 *  [Bodhipaksa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haecceity/)
 * (@haecceity)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-draft-postspages/#post-589851)
 * When I open a draft there is *no* option to delete it. As I said, the only way
   to get rid of a draft is to search for it and then click on “delete” beside the
   post listing.
 *  [syncbox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/syncbox/)
 * (@syncbox)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-draft-postspages/#post-589856)
 * I am using version 2.2 and there is both a delete link to the right of any draft
   page and a delete button at the very bottom of the page for every draft (and 
   published) page.
 * Are you selecting the page from the Manage>Pages list? I don’t have a “list of
   Drafts” but all draft pages show up on the same manage pages screen and all have
   the links View | Edit | Delete to the right of each.
 *  [Bodhipaksa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haecceity/)
 * (@haecceity)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-draft-postspages/#post-589858)
 * Syncbox,
 * I believe your question was answered above. Some versions of 2.2 seem to behave
   differently from others. Perhaps it’s a plugin issue?

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