3.5 Cannot Delete CustomPost from Frontend anymore

I appreciate this isn’t an easy one to fix.
The Buddypress factor probably doesn’t help.

I’ve tested the same function on non-custom posts; 2012 theme; within the index.php loop. Behaviour is as expected (i.e. post gets deleted).

Will keep testing things, but if anyone has suggestions would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Ok – so I think I have enough information for someone to replicate- (i.e. ALL plugins disabled; 2012 theme)

Added this to 2012’s archive.php (during the loop):

echo wp_delete_post_link();

Add this to the top of 2012’s functions.php

//Create locations custom post type
add_action('init', 'create_locations');
function create_locations() {
	global $locations_options;
	$location_labels = array(
			'name' => _x('Locations', 'post type general name'),
			'singular_name' => _x('Location', 'post type singular name'),
			'add_new' => _x('Add New', 'location'),
			'add_new_item' => __('Add New Location'),
			'edit_item' => __('Edit Location'),
			'new_item' => __('New Location'),
			'all_items' => __('All Locations'),
			'view_item' => __('View Location'),
			'search_items' => __('Search Locations'),
			'not_found' =>  __('No locations found'),
			'not_found_in_trash' => __('No locations found in Trash'),
			'parent_item_colon' => '',
			'menu_name' => 'Locations'

	);
	$location_args = array(
			'labels' => $location_labels,
			'public' => true,
			'show_ui' => true,
			'hierarchical' => false,
			'has_archive' => true,
			'supports' => array('title', 'editor', 'thumbnail'),
	);
	if ( !post_type_exists('location') ){
		register_post_type('location',$location_args);
	}
}

function wp_delete_post_link($text = '[delete]',$confirm_required=true) {
	global $post;

	$delLink = wp_nonce_url( site_url() . "/wp-admin/post.php?action=trash&post=" . $post->ID, 'trash-' . $post->post_type . '_' . $post->ID);
	return $confirm_required
	? '<a href="' . $delLink . '" onclick="javascript:if(!confirm(\'Are you sure you want to remove this post?\')) return false;" />'.$text."</a>"
			: '<a href="' . $delLink . '">'.$text."</a>";
}

Navigate to: https://www.example.dev/?post_type=location

Attempt to use the [delete], and you see the reported error.

Hmmm…

Well, I found a fix… (incase anyone is interested).
Just had to use get_delete_post_link( $post->ID) instead.

function wp_delete_post_link($text = '[delete]',$confirm_required=true) {
	global $post;

	$delLink = get_delete_post_link( $post->ID);
	return $confirm_required
	? '<a href="' . $delLink . '" onclick="javascript:if(!confirm(\'Are you sure you want to remove this post?\')) return false;" />'.$text."</a>"
			: '<a href="' . $delLink . '">'.$text."</a>";
}

Thanks jibbius, this helped me out, I had exactly the same problem.

I think the error might have had something to do with the fact that I have an underscore (“_”) in my custom post type’s name. If you look closely at how the $delLink was constructed in the original wp_delete_post_link function, then you can see that it also inserts an underscore to the link generated.

Haha no worries!
Hopefully you spent less time on it than I did ??

Hmm… yes, I never thought to actually compare the two different URLs, but the underscore issue could definitely be the cause.

I am much happier using get_delete_post_link() anyway, far less that can go wrong.

You just saved my life! Thank you so much!