figaro wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
In WordPress 2.9 one of the new features is the ability to send posts, pages, and comments to trash instead of simply deleting them as in previous versions.
One thing about this new feature that is not so obvious, is that by default, items in trash are automatically deleted after 30-days. Of course, this could be a good thing as long as you know about it, but it could catch some by surprise who don’t know about this auto-delete feature in trash. I would imagine there are some who will use the trash as a holding place for posts, pages, or comments that they may want to remove from public view, but keep handy for possible future use. In the past, you may have just changed the status of a post or page from “Published” to “Draft” or simply “Unapproved” a comment to achieve the same result. The difference is, your [...]
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