Enable Logged-in Users to Delete Their Posts on the Frontend Using WordPress REST API

This members-only tutorial provides the steps to add "Delete" links next to a list of posts on a custom user dashboard which when clicked deletes the corresponding post (gets moved to the Trash).

We shall

• create a Dashboard Page per this tutorial
• modify the WP_Query instance's loop to add Delete links for each post
• load a js file on the Page which
  • gets all the delete links
  • loops through them and adds a click event listener that sends a DELETE request to WordPress REST API for the corresponding post and then remove the parent list item of the clicked Delete link using cookie authentication

Step 1

Implement the Frontend editing with ACF in Oxygen tutorial.

Step 2

Replace the PHP in the Code Block with: