Delete a Page or Post Last Updated November 2024 Consider carefully when removing content from your website: Removing the content may affect Inbound links & Search indexing. Compliance with Records Retention. Deleting a Page or Post is a 2 step process: Step 1 decide how to remove the Page or Post: If you move a Page of Post to the Trash in WordPress it will be available for 30 days and then deleted permanently. If you need to keep a record of a page in order to comply with Records Retention, you should edit it and save it as a Draft, as in the following screenshot: Step 2 remove it from the menu: If the Page or Post is in the navigation menu for the site, you must delete it from the menu.