Permanently deletes comments or posts of any type that have held a status of ‘trash’ for the number of days defined in EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS.
Description
The default value of EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS
is 30 (days).
Source
function wp_scheduled_delete() {
global $wpdb;
$delete_timestamp = time() - ( DAY_IN_SECONDS * EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS );
$posts_to_delete = $wpdb->get_results( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT post_id FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE meta_key = '_wp_trash_meta_time' AND meta_value < %d", $delete_timestamp ), ARRAY_A );
foreach ( (array) $posts_to_delete as $post ) {
$post_id = (int) $post['post_id'];
if ( ! $post_id ) {
continue;
}
$del_post = get_post( $post_id );
if ( ! $del_post || 'trash' !== $del_post->post_status ) {
delete_post_meta( $post_id, '_wp_trash_meta_status' );
delete_post_meta( $post_id, '_wp_trash_meta_time' );
} else {
wp_delete_post( $post_id );
}
}
$comments_to_delete = $wpdb->get_results( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT comment_id FROM $wpdb->commentmeta WHERE meta_key = '_wp_trash_meta_time' AND meta_value < %d", $delete_timestamp ), ARRAY_A );
foreach ( (array) $comments_to_delete as $comment ) {
$comment_id = (int) $comment['comment_id'];
if ( ! $comment_id ) {
continue;
}
$del_comment = get_comment( $comment_id );
if ( ! $del_comment || 'trash' !== $del_comment->comment_approved ) {
delete_comment_meta( $comment_id, '_wp_trash_meta_time' );
delete_comment_meta( $comment_id, '_wp_trash_meta_status' );
} else {
wp_delete_comment( $del_comment );
}
}
}
Changelog
Version | Description |
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2.9.0 | Introduced. |
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