{"id":4507,"date":"2018-01-02T12:16:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T12:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truehost.co.ke\/support\/?post_type=ht_kb&p=4507"},"modified":"2024-06-21T08:32:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T08:32:11","password":"","slug":"optimizing-wordpress-trash-settings","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/optimizing-wordpress-trash-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimizing WordPress Trash Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Optimizing WordPress Trash Settings<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Many are the times when important posts,pages,comments and attachments maybe deleted from WordPress only to realize how important they are. This should not make you panic because the trash feature in wordpress makes you recover them for as long as 30days after deletion. However\u00a0 prolonged periods of trash saved might affect your database performance, supposing your website receives lots of traffic thereby slowing it down.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The recovery period of these contents maybe reduced to a shorter period of time so that they are not kept as trash for a long period of time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The following steps show how time can be optimized;<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n