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How to Automatically Empty Trash Items

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Are you looking for a way to automatically empty trash items? This snippet will automatically empty trash items that have been in the trash more than 3 days.

Instructions:

All you have to do is add this code the wp-config.php file in the root directory of your wordpress install.

define('EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS', 3 );

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Comments   Leave a Reply

  1. This did not help. I’m looking for the trash icon so I can delete the contents

  2. What’s considered trash? Please.

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