How to set post status to Delete?

Question

How do I add a post status option to delete the post instead of setting it to draft or pending or anything like that?

Answer 1

You can move the post to Trash before you save it or publish:

Or you can do it later, from the post list:

Later you can empty Trash or it will automatically delete everything from Trash what is older than a month.

Answer 2

You can set the post status to trash.

$post_id = 1; // change this to your post ID
$status = 'trash';
$current_post = get_post( $post_id, 'ARRAY_A' );
$current_post['post_status'] = $status;
wp_update_post($current_post);

Got code from this answer.