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Change Empty Trash Time

Description

“Change WP Empty Trash Time” is a small plugin that allows you to select the time in days that WordPress take to automatically empty trash. You can select the number of days at the bottom of Settings > General. This plugin wont work if the value is already defined elsewhere to avoid errors.

Features

  • Allow to select the days that WordPress take to empty trash.
  • Automatically Empty Trash after the numbers of days selected

Screenshots

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Installation

The Plugin can be installed in two ways.

Manual instalation

  1. Download and upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/change-wp-empty-trash-time directory from the WordPress plugin repository.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress admin.
  3. Go to Settings > General to configure it.

WordPress interface instalation

  1. Open the plugin Interface in the wordpress admin and click on “Add new”.
  2. In the Search box enter “Change WP Empty Trash Time” and hit Enter.
  3. Click on “Install” to install the plugin.
  4. Go to Settings > General to configure it.

FAQ

Why It doesnt work?

If you have defined the value elsewhere the plugin wont work to avoid errors.

What happens if I place a negative number or invalid characters?

There is a validation that checks if the input is correct so nothing wrong happens.

Reviews

August 3, 2019
Very light software. I managed to reduce the size of my database by 30%. It’s great. Thank you very much for the fantastic work.
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Contributors & Developers

“Change Empty Trash Time” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“Change Empty Trash Time” has been translated into 3 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

1.0.4

  • Function name changes

1.0.3

  • Adds a readme.txt file.

1.0.2

  • Adds translation option.

1.0.1

  • Bug Fix.