# A post's TopicEmbed isn't destroyed when the post is deleted
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-posts-topicembed-isnt-destroyed-when-the-post-is-deleted/60904
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [4월 13, 2017, 8:32오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-posts-topicembed-isnt-destroyed-when-the-post-is-deleted/60904 "2017-04-13T08:32:40Z")
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [4월 13, 2017, 8:32오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-posts-topicembed-isnt-destroyed-when-the-post-is-deleted/60904/1 "2017-04-13T08:32:40Z")
When a post is created through the API with an `embed_url` property, the `TopidEmbed` that’s created on Discourse isn’t being destroyed when the topic is deleted. I don’t know if this is by accident or by design.
The problem I’m having with it is that it makes it hard to setup any integration tests between the wp-discourse plugin and Discourse. Every time the tests are run, the `TopicEmbeds` that are created by the tests have to be deleted through the rails console.
It also creates a small problem for general use of the plugin. If a post on Discourse that has been created through the wp-discourse plugin is ever deleted, the only way to republish it from WordPress is to go to the rails console and delete the `TopicEmbed` that is associated with the post.
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [4월 13, 2017, 8:53오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-posts-topicembed-isnt-destroyed-when-the-post-is-deleted/60904/2 "2017-04-13T08:53:05Z")
How are you fetching topic embeds? Maybe adding a scope like `where("topics.deleted_at IS NULL && posts.deleted_at IS NULL)` will help?
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [4월 13, 2017, 9:11오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-posts-topicembed-isnt-destroyed-when-the-post-is-deleted/60904/3 "2017-04-13T09:11:22Z")
> [@tgxworld](#):
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> How are you fetching topic embeds?
I’m not fetching them, the `embed_url` is sent as a property when a post is published on Discourse through the wp-discourse plugin. The post can’t be created if the `embed_url` already exists because `TopicEmbed` validates the uniqueness of `embed_url`.
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [4월 18, 2017, 8:38오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-posts-topicembed-isnt-destroyed-when-the-post-is-deleted/60904/4 "2017-04-18T08:38:50Z")
I think we need to make `TopicEmbed` trashable as well. I’m not too farmiliar with what `TopicEmbed` is used for though so maybe someone else from [@team](https://meta.discourse.org/groups/team) can assist.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [4월 18, 2017, 8:53오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-posts-topicembed-isnt-destroyed-when-the-post-is-deleted/60904/5 "2017-04-18T08:53:25Z")
I have worked a bit on [topic embedding](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-discourse-comments-via-javascript/31963), added on my list. ✏
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [4월 25, 2017, 2:44오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-posts-topicembed-isnt-destroyed-when-the-post-is-deleted/60904/6 "2017-04-25T14:44:27Z")
> [@tgxworld](#):
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> I think we need to make TopicEmbed trashable as well.
This is now done via:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/aeead600363b8e80d75bbff0bdca2234064d895e](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/aeead600363b8e80d75bbff0bdca2234064d895e)
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [4월 28, 2017, 10:00오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-posts-topicembed-isnt-destroyed-when-the-post-is-deleted/60904/7 "2017-04-28T10:00:22Z")
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