Trash Fail Safe
Require confirmation before deleting items from the Trash, or emptying the whole Trash. Protects against accidental clicks.
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Actively maintained • Last updated 26 days ago • 2 reviews
Is Trash Fail Safe abandoned?
Likely maintained (last update 26 days ago).
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Description
If you use the WordPress admin area on a mobile device, or have cats sometimes walk across your keyboard it can be good to have a fail-safe confirmation before permanently deleting posts from the Trashed items.
This plugin adds simple JS to the admin area to do just that.
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Changelog
1.2.1 – 2025-01-25
Fixing internal issue with trunk/stable release in plugin repo
1.2.0 – 2022-05-07
Avoid double confirmation when deleting media library item
1.1.0 – 2022-03-12
Require confirmation before bulk deleting posts from trash using Bulk Actions
1.0.0 – 2022-01-27
Tested with WordPress 5.9
1.0.0 – 2021-07-14
Tested with WordPress 5.8 RC2
1.0.0 – 2020-12-06
Tested with WordPress 5.6
1.0.0 – 2020-08-22
Tested with WordPress 5.5
Avoid delete confirmation on media items as WordPress already has its own confirmation for them.
0.9.1 – 2020-04-20
Tested with older WordPress version (4.7)
0.9 – 2020-04-16
– Initial stable release. Tested on Chrome, Chrome mobile, Firefox, Safari, Edge, IE11