Title: wp_ajax_delete_page
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# wp_ajax_delete_page( string $action )

## In this article

 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_ajax_delete_page/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_ajax_delete_page/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_ajax_delete_page/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_ajax_delete_page/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Handles deleting a page via AJAX.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_ajax_delete_page/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$action`stringrequired

Action to perform.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_ajax_delete_page/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    function wp_ajax_delete_page( $action ) {
    	if ( empty( $action ) ) {
    		$action = 'delete-page';
    	}

    	$id = isset( $_POST['id'] ) ? (int) $_POST['id'] : 0;
    	check_ajax_referer( "{$action}_$id" );

    	if ( ! current_user_can( 'delete_page', $id ) ) {
    		wp_die( -1 );
    	}

    	if ( ! get_post( $id ) ) {
    		wp_die( 1 );
    	}

    	if ( wp_delete_post( $id ) ) {
    		wp_die( 1 );
    	} else {
    		wp_die( 0 );
    	}
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php#L954)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php#L954-L975)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_ajax_delete_page/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Uses | Description | 
| [wp_delete_post()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_delete_post/)`wp-includes/post.php` |

Trashes or deletes a post or page.

  | 
| [current_user_can()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/current_user_can/)`wp-includes/capabilities.php` |

Returns whether the current user has the specified capability.

  | 
| [check_ajax_referer()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/check_ajax_referer/)`wp-includes/pluggable.php` |

Verifies the Ajax request to prevent processing requests external of the blog.

  | 
| [wp_die()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_die/)`wp-includes/functions.php` |

Kills WordPress execution and displays HTML page with an error message.

  | 
| [get_post()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post/)`wp-includes/post.php` |

Retrieves post data given a post ID or post object.

  |

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_ajax_delete_page/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [3.1.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.1.0/) | Introduced. |

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