[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #15930: Make trashed posts/pages still readable

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#15930: Make trashed posts/pages still readable
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 Reporter:  JonezJeA           |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement        |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Posts, Post Types  |     Version:  3.0.3
 Severity:  minor              |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion        |     Focuses:  administration
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Comment (by wpkonsulent):

 I'm surprised this hasn't gained more traction. I have lots of clients
 with huge sites and many, many editors who have this problem all the time.
 Suppose someone trashes a page and the head editor wants to see the
 content of the trashed page, just to make sure it wasn't trashed by
 accident. She can't do that without untrashing it and thereby publishing
 it again, which could bring all sorts of trouble on a large site. Some
 times there are even several trashed pages with the same name which only
 makes the problem worse.

 Why can't we preview trashed pages, just like we can preview drafts? I'm
 curious what the reason might be, you know, design-wise.

 Always setting post status to draft when untrashing (as suggested by
 #23022) is sort of fine, but IMO it would be a nice addition if we could
 also just preview the page without untrashing it. Just to be clear, I'm
 only suggesting the page to be '''previewed''' on the front end. Being
 able to actually edit trashed pages would probably lead to confusion, so
 that's not what I'm proposing.

 I'd be interested in making a patch for this, btw.

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