As you know, deleting entries and comments is not possible outside of the Control Panel, by default.
Yet, sometimes there is a need to give some members (or member groups) this feature, without exposing the CP to them. For example, to enable a member to delete their own comments in context (as it’s the case with many social networking sites), or to give them full control over the content they’ve created on a “dashboard-like” page.

This plugin does just that. There are three tags you can use:
* link: to generate a link to a “delete comment” or “delete entry” template
* delete_entry: guess what..
* delete_comment: to delete a comment

User feedback messages are customisable via parameters, and so are behaviours like js alert.
Detailed documentation on the plugin usage function…

You can download the plugin for both EE1 and EE2 here:
http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/delete-entries-and-comments/

Enjoy! (If you do, let us know how you used the plugin here: http://www.milocreative.com/blog/view/expressionengine-free-goody/)

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Sounds like a nice little plugin. I haven’t had the chance to try it out yet, but look forward to doing so. I’ll make a post on your site and let you know my thoughts.

Smart idea, could prove very useful in social networking application or sites with a large base of user generated or collaborative content.

Thanks for sharing.

Moving this up to the community news forums.  Please take a look at the 3rd party addons policies blog post.  Thanks! 

gonna try that plugin soon, thanks very much

Hi milo, will there be an EE2 version:)

An EE 2 version of the plugin is surely in our to-do list, but not top priority as of yet. I can’t anticipate how long this will take, so in the meanwhile feel free to use the current version as a springboard for an EE2 port.

Thanks. An EE2 version is out: http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/delete-entries-and-comments/

This is just what I needed, I was using a SAEF to change an entry status to hidden which was a bit messy.

This works a treat, another great plugin for EE.

Watch out, it doesn’t update the comment total for the entry.

Well spotted Lee. It’s not a problem for what I’m using it for right now but surely its an easy fix for Milo. Cheers.

I swapped about 10 emails with him, but it became confusing and in the end he stopped replying.

Oh well!

Maybe someone could improve the code… It doesn’t sound too difficult although I wouldn’t know how to myself.

Hi there,

sorry I had problems posting to this forum thread. EE kept telling me that I have no permission to write a reply, how funny..

@leeaston, which email did you send your questions to? I haven’t personally received any. You could write to matteo [at] milocreative.com

Cheers,
Matteo

Also, thanks for spotting the total comments bug. It’ll be a quick fix.

Hi Milo, that’s great news… is this fixed now?

Hi there, it is fixed actually. You can grab it from devot-ee: http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/delete-entries-and-comments/

Any chance of an example how to use this or a link to some documentation?

Thanks

Paul

I am not sure what the value for “template” should be. I am trying to use the example you provided. Also why have you put the string “image” into the “type” parameter. Is this not the message that appears in the alert box?

It says in the documentation:

- template (required): name of the template containing the {exp:delete:delete_entry}

The template that I have put the code below in is called “MyServices” i.e http://.www.mysite.com./index.php/myServices

Here is your example embedded into my code

Thanks for a great plugin!

Paul

Hi Paul,

sorry for the late reply.

The template parameter is used in the {exp:delete:link} tag to reference the template where you place the {exp:delete:delete_entry} or {exp:delete:delete_comment} tags. It is used to generate the actual link to that template.

So, you’ll have two templates:
1. one that lists some entries and generates a link to delete each individual entry
2. one that takes in an entry_id parameter, and deletes that entry

Let’s assume you have a blog template group, which contains several templates..

The list template will look like this:

The above will generate links like this:

..where 213 is the entry_id value.
When clicking that links, if the alert value is set to true, then users will be shown an alert, reading “Do your really want to delete this blog post?” That’s where the type parameters comes handy, you see?

The delete template (blog/delete), will look like this:

Hope this helps.
Matteo