Delete Associated Media Upon Page Deletion

Note

Use at your own risk, it is buggy and I have run across a couple instances where it would delete ALL attachments. Unsure why.

Is it possible to delete media associated with a page when that page is deleted? I know in the Insert Media page you can filter by images “Uploaded to this page” so could I get a list of those and just delete them as the page is being deleted?

Right now I’m playing around with hooking into Delete Post. Right now… it does nothing but I think I’m getting somewhere with it.

function del_post_media($pid) {
    $query = "DELETE FROM wp_postmeta
            WHERE ".$pid." IN
            (
            SELECT id
            FROM wp_posts
            WHERE post_type = 'attachment'
            )";
    global $wpdb;
    if ($wpdb->get_var($wpdb->prepare($query))) {
        return $wpdb->query($wpdb->prepare($query));
    }
    return true;
}
add_action('delete_post', 'del_post_media');

Answers:

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Method 1

How about this? It adapts an example on the get_posts() function reference page.

function delete_post_media( $post_id ) {

    $attachments = get_posts( array(
        'post_type'      => 'attachment',
        'posts_per_page' => -1,
        'post_status'    => 'any',
        'post_parent'    => $post_id
    ) );

    foreach ( $attachments as $attachment ) {
        if ( false === wp_delete_attachment( $attachment->ID ) ) {
            // Log failure to delete attachment.
        }
    }
}

add_action( 'before_delete_post', 'delete_post_media' );

Method 2

I suppose you’re looking for something like this…?

function delete_associated_media($id) {
    // check if page
    if ('page' !== get_post_type($id)) return;

    $media = get_children(array(
        'post_parent' => $id,
        'post_type' => 'attachment'
    ));
    if (empty($media)) return;

    foreach ($media as $file) {
        // pick what you want to do
        wp_delete_attachment($file->ID);
        unlink(get_attached_file($file->ID));
    }
}
add_action('before_delete_post', 'delete_associated_media');

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