How to disable delete option for a specific page? [closed]

Question

i found many questions like this but nothing matching to my requirement.Here i need to lock a specific page named settings,not to be deleted by other admins.But it should able to edit. Is there any way to lock a specific page.

Answer 1

Preventing the trash post action is a crude way of approaching it. You have to kill the application and display an ugly error message, and the UI for deleting the post will still be there.

Instead I suggest using the map_meta_cap filter. This will allow you to change a user's capabilities for a single post.

Normally when WordPress checks if a user can delete a post it checks "can the user delete_post for this post?". The way it figures this out is with the map_meta_cap function.

This function decides which capabilities delete_post maps to. For example, if the user created the post then the function maps delete_post to delete_posts. So if the user has the delete_posts capability then they can delete the post. If the user did not create the post, then the function maps delete_post to delete_others_posts.

The map_meta_cap filter allows us change this mapping. So we'll use it to map delete_post to do_not_allow for this specific post. Then no users will be able to delete that post.

This is the function for doing this:

function wpse_312694_restrict_page_deletion( $caps, $cap, $user_id, $args ) {
    $post_id = $args[0];

    if ( $cap === 'delete_post' && $post_id === 117 ) {
        $caps[] = 'do_not_allow';
    }

    return $caps;
}
add_filter( 'map_meta_cap', 'wpse_312694_restrict_page_deletion', 10, 4 );

Answer 2

found the solution

function restrict_page_deletion($post_ID)
{
  $restricted_pageId = 177;

  if(($post_ID == $restricted_pageId))
   {
    echo "You are not authorized to delete this page.";
    exit;
   }
}
add_action('wp_trash_post', 'restrict_page_deletion', 10, 1);