Move to Trash from Admin Bar

by Arroba Digital

Download

Description

Add a Move to Trash Button to delete posts or pages from the WordPress Admin Bar.

Just install the plugin; there are no additional settings to be made.

Installation

The installation is pretty standard:

Upload the package contents to to the /wp-content/plugins/ folder
Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress

There are no additional settings to be made.

Screenshots

Move to Trash link added to the Admin Bar.
Move to Trash link added to the Admin Bar (full page view).

Faq

Installation Instructions

The installation is pretty standard:

Upload the package contents to to the /wp-content/plugins/ folder
Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress

There are no additional settings to be made.

Reviews

Works!

By somewebmaster on October 23, 2025

It does its job perfectly, never broken by new versions of WP.

Just a warning: it's safe to say it's been abandoned for years, so it'd be wise to disable its autoupdate option. Security first.

I can't live without it

By frogstar42 on August 19, 2023

This may be an old plug-in, an WordPress might think it doesn't work with the new stuff, but let me tell you, it sure does. I'm using the newest WordPress and the divi builder, and this is still 1 of my favorites

Adds Delete Button to WordPress Admin Bar

By Coalay (chrisparksaz) on March 3, 2018

Just what I needed. A quick way to add a "delete button to wordpress admin bar" -- or you could say it adds a "MOVE TO TRASH BUTTON to ADMIN BAR". Either way, it works and hopefully, this will get picked up better in search results.

Changelog

Version 1.0.2 (released Nov 11, 2017)

Compatible with WordPress 4.9

Version 1.0.1 (released Feb 20, 2017)

Plugin name update.

Version 1.0.0 (released Feb 19, 2017)

Initial release.