FlipFlop 3.0Don’t Store Posts in the Trash
Yes, you did read that title correctly.
And I did a double-take too when I saw this posted in the wordpress.org support forums. I thought that this kind of thing was an urban myth. But — hand on heart — someone really did decide to store more than a dozen, previously published, posts in their WordPress Trash until they got around to polishing them up for re-publication.
When they finally logged back in again (weeks later), lo and behold, all of their precious posts had been permanently deleted with absolutely no chance of getting them back (short of restoring the whole site via a recent database backup).
Yes, folks, WordPress does empty your Trash for you every 30 days by default. That said, Trash is no place to store anything (unless you are one of these strange Windows users who also stores documents in their Recycle Bin in which case… you’re on your own).
If you want to pull posts off your site for further work or review, simply change their status from Published to Draft or Pending Review via the Quick Edit link or by Edit Post (or Edit Page).
Keep Trash for stuff that you really, really, don’t want any more.
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