get_delete_post_link redirect

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I am using this to allow users to delete their own posts on the front end of my site: 

<a onclick="return confirm('Move this post to the trash? You can restore it later.');" href="<?php echo get_delete_post_link($postid); ?>">Trash Post</a>

The problem is, this refreshed the current page and adds some query args to the URL (trashed=1 and ids=123). What I want to happen is that the user is redirected to a certain page with specific query args, like so:

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mysite.com/yourarticles/?user=123&post=321&action=trash

How can I change where the get_delete_post_link function redirects to?

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  1. To redirect after the use of get_delete_post_link() it’s probably easiest to hook into the trashed_post action:

    Code:

    add_action( 'trashed_post', 'wpse132196_redirect_after_trashing', 10 );
function wpse132196_redirect_after_trashing() {
    wp_redirect( home_url('/your-custom-slug') );
    exit;
}

    Or you could make it dependent on the according $_GET variable by hooking into the the action parse_request:

    Code:

    add_action( 'parse_request', 'wpse132196_redirect_after_trashing_get' );
function wpse132196_redirect_after_trashing_get() {
    if ( array_key_exists( 'trashed', $_GET ) && $_GET['trashed'] == '1' ) {
        wp_redirect( home_url('/your-custom-slug') );
        exit;
    }
}

    Note that both solution will intercept on the admin side too, so you might want to add a check to prevent that.

    To change the link returned by get_delete_post_link() take a look at the source, in link-template.php. There you’ll see how the $delete_link is constructed. You can alter the return of the function via the correspondent filter get_delete_post_link. This way you can make the link point to your custom page or endpoint for frontend post deletion.

    Code:

    add_filter( 'get_delete_post_link', 'wpse132196_change_delete_post_link', 10, 3 );
function wpse132196_change_delete_post_link(  $id = 0, $deprecated = '', $force_delete = false ) {
    global $post;
    $action = ( $force_delete || !EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS ) ? 'delete' : 'trash';
    $qargs = array(
        'action' => $action,
        'post' => $post->ID,
        'user' => get_current_user_id()
    );
    $delete_link = add_query_arg( $qargs, home_url( sprintf( '/yourarcticles/' ) ) );
    return  wp_nonce_url( $delete_link, "$action-post_{$post->ID}" );
}

    From where you can take care of handling your custom post deletion request. Note that above exemplary code won’t delete anything, if I’m not mistaken, I haven’t actually tested it, it’s only proof of concept code, so you have to adapt to your needs yourself.

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