View post in trash without restoring

  • We had a very large, old site that was recently migrated over to WordPress from Joomla by the new developing team. During the migration, tons of (to the tune of over 700) articles (now posts) came over that were not being used. I went through them all and put them in the trash bin. We are now down to a lean 200 posts and 125 pages. ??

    My problem. I want another set of eyes on the posts that I trashed. However, these trashed posts cannot be viewed without “restoring”.

    Is there a work-around? A possible plug-in that will allow us to view these before permanently deleting?

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  • Maybe you should have set them to draft instead but now you’d have to restore them then move them to draft and then delete them. Not a really good solution.

    You can ‘right click’ and hit the restore button to leave the title back in the trashed list then look for it in the resulting posts list but that’s kind of a kludge.

    I did find this plugin https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/trashed-by/ but that only works after it’s installed. Won’t help much with previously trashed posts.

    The only other option I could think of is to install a local copy of WordPress somewhere where you could then import the whole database and delete the published posts (with a bulk delete plugin) then restore all those deleted posts… I doubt that would be worth doing though.

    You’d still need to manually intervene after deciding to delete or restore and that’s back on the original site.

    Here’s a thought though… maybe watch for 404 errors and search the trashed posts for those topics. Just maybe that would work and you could have that second person do the search Or send them the search results URL as a ‘heads up’.

    Of course, I’d just restore the post in question in that case when appropriate and short circuit that whole idea.

    Wish I had a better idea yet.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by JNashHawkins.
    Thread Starter Linda McColley

    (@lindagibson)

    Thanks for your reply.

    It’s not so much that I might have trashed posts that were currently being used, just that I could have trashed posts that we simply did not have linked either accidentally or intentionally, for a reason I was not made aware of.

    We have other posts in draft status for different reasons, so that would not have worked.

    If I had known we could not review the trashed posts I would have simply created a category, bulk moved them to that category and then had another eye go over them.

    Heck, even if I knew of a way to bulk move them to a new category perhaps called review while in the trash, I could then restore them all through bulk actions. Not sure I can change the category while in trash.

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