I used the embedded feature to tie together a blog with my forum. While testing I deleted all those posts. Now that I’m trying to re-create the integration I realised that deleting posts just don’t actually delete them, it just hides them. So, now the integration is broken because users don’t have a…

Search example.com/latest?status=deleted, find the deleted topic and click the Un-delete button [image]

By site setting the posts you deleted are only hidden (to all except admins) for 24 h. In this period you can undelete all of them. After 24 h they are deleted forever.

@Trash: Thanks, but this setting doesn’t apply to topics, only to posts. In any case, I don’t think it even really deletes them from the database, which is what I’m asking for. @zee : Where is this? I looked under http://www.example.com/users/my_admin_user/activity/topics but I can’t find anything. …

Trash: By site setting the posts you deleted are only hidden (to all except admins) for 24 h. This site setting is unrelated – it only applies to posts deleted by the author, which will stick around as (deleted by author, will be removed in 24 hours unless flagged) for the specified time. …

As admin the posts you have deleted should be listed here: http://www.example.com/users/{your-username-here}/deleted-posts This is linked from the top of your profile page, clicking the [immagine] button will show something like this in the top left: [immagine] Click “deleted posts” to see the p…

There is also the querystring (also works with category/latest page) /latest?status=deleted

@DeanMarkTaylor : thanks for pointing out this helpful, though well-hidden, feature. But it only lists posts, not topics. The solutions that @fefrei and @cpradio suggested work fine, though the latter is simpler to use. Unfortunately I can’t undelete topics at all. I have two admin accounts, the on…

This is risky, and I’d advise you wait until a Discourse Team member can provide better feedback, but something like this should work from the Rails console, so long as you know the topic ids you want to delete. Topic.find(topic_id).destroy

@alehandrof Sorry wasn’t online last few days, What I was talking about @DeanMarkTaylor posted a screen shot

I’m having trouble following as there at least 2 if not 3 issues being discussed. In regards to Topics, in the context of deleting / undeleting topics Discourse considers the OP as the Topic. That is, the topic is the first post. In other words, if the first post is deleted (the trash can icon), t…

How can I delete or undelete topics?

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zainab (Zainab) 29 Marzo 2016, 9:40am 2

If all the posts you deleted was created by you, then under your profile you can see what posts you deleted and then you can undo the delete

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How can I delete or undelete topics?

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