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I want to delete the post attachments too from the 'Media" panel once a custom post is deleted. The post itself gets deleted well, but its media still remains in the wordpress "media" panel:

Archive page:

<?php

if (isset($_POST['delete-btn'])) {

    $deletePost = $_POST['post-id'];

    wp_delete_post( $deletePost, true);
    do_action( 'delete_post', $_POST['post-id'] );
}
?>

Functions.php:

//delete all media attached with deleted post
    add_action( 'delete_post', 'delete_post_children' );

    function delete_post_children( $post_id )
    {
    wp_delete_attachment( $post_id );
};
//delete all media attached with deleted post end

Please help. Thanks.

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  • I think that this do_action( 'delete_post', $_POST['post-id'] ); is not necessary, try commenting this line and tring again, also do a print_r to $_POST to check that all the properties exist and have the expected value
    – Buttered_Toast
    Commented Jul 14, 2021 at 11:47
  • If you want to permanently delete an attachment, try setting the second parameter to true: wp_delete_attachment( $post_id, true ).
    – Sally CJ
    Commented Jul 14, 2021 at 15:33

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