Title: Trash Fail Safe Author: mikehealy Published: April 18, 2020 Last modified: Désémber 4, 2025 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/trash-fail-safe/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=2366856) ![](https://ps.w.org/trash-fail-safe/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=2286106) # Trash Fail Safe By [mikehealy](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mikehealy/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/trash-fail-safe.1.2.2.zip) * [Details](https://su.wordpress.org/plugins/trash-fail-safe/#description) * [Reviews](https://su.wordpress.org/plugins/trash-fail-safe/#reviews) * [Development](https://su.wordpress.org/plugins/trash-fail-safe/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/trash-fail-safe/) ## 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. ## Screenshots * [[ ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c7ffc6689d2b995a83890e216e82b351bc99c1ce45ad86d50ecb4a556931d578? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Best support](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-support-199/)󠁿 [katharina001](https://profiles.wordpress.org/katharina001/) Maret 14, 2022 The Plugin is easy to use and works perfect. Support is great 🙂 ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6709245612472bd4617385c31101639f0058def58bd6081bc5d0de0d4d18e5c9? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Highly Recommended!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/highly-recommended-443/)󠁿 [‪Orr Burgel‬‏](https://profiles.wordpress.org/burgil/) Oktober 4, 2020 This plugin simply works, I also verified that it does not Affect the site loading speed and it doesn’t Combined with the following line on your wp-config.php file it just makes it super perfect to use (above the last line – don’t put it at the bottom!) //Disable Trash define(‘EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS’, 0 ); OR //Auto Clean Trash After 15 Days Instead Of 30 //define( ‘EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS’, 15 ); Bonus: //Disable Revisions define( ‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false ); OR //Spam less history saves of post edits and auto save posts while you write less often //define(‘AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL’, 120);// define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, 10); [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/trash-fail-safe/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Trash Fail Safe” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ mikehealy ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mikehealy/) [Translate “Trash Fail Safe” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/trash-fail-safe) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trash-fail-safe/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/trash-fail-safe/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/trash-fail-safe/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/trash-fail-safe/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## 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 ## Meta * Version **1.2.2** * Last updated **5 months ago** * Active installations **40+** * WordPress version ** 4.7 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.9.4** * PHP version ** 5.3 or higher ** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/trash-fail-safe/) * Tags * [admin](https://su.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[confirmation](https://su.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/confirmation/) [failsafe](https://su.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/failsafe/)[trash](https://su.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/trash/) * [Advanced View](https://su.wordpress.org/plugins/trash-fail-safe/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 2 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/trash-fail-safe/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/trash-fail-safe/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/trash-fail-safe/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/trash-fail-safe/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/trash-fail-safe/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/trash-fail-safe/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/trash-fail-safe/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ mikehealy ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mikehealy/) ## Support Issues resolved in last two months: 0 out of 1 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/trash-fail-safe/)