POST/sites/$site/media/$media_ID/delete
Delete a piece of media. Note: Media is deleted and not trashed.
Resource Information
Method | POST |
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URL | https://public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1.1/sites/$site/media/$media_ID/delete |
Requires authentication? | Yes |
Method Parameters
Parameter | Type | Description |
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$site | (int|string) | Site ID or domain |
$media_ID | (int) | The media ID |
Query Parameters
Parameter | Type | Description |
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context | (string) |
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http_envelope | (bool) |
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pretty | (bool) |
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meta | (string) | Optional. Loads data from the endpoints found in the 'meta' part of the response. Comma-separated list. Example: meta=site,likes |
fields | (string) | Optional. Returns specified fields only. Comma-separated list. Example: fields=ID,title |
callback | (string) | An optional JSONP callback function. |
Response Parameters
Parameter | Type | Description |
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status | (string) | Returns deleted if the media was successfully deleted |
ID | (int) | The ID of the media item |
date | (iso 8601 datetime) | The date the media was uploaded |
post_ID | (int) | ID of the post this media is attached to |
author_ID | (int) | ID of the user who uploaded the media |
URL | (string) | URL to the file |
guid | (string) | Unique identifier |
file | (string) | File name |
extension | (string) | File extension |
mime_type | (string) | File mime type |
title | (string) | File name |
caption | (string) | User-provided caption of the file |
description | (string) | Description of the file |
alt | (string) | Alternative text for image files. |
thumbnails | (object) | Media item thumbnail URL options |
height | (int) | (Image & video only) Height of the media item |
width | (int) | (Image & video only) Width of the media item |
length | (int) | (Video & audio only) Duration of the media item, in seconds |
exif | (array) | (Image & audio only) Exif (meta) information about the media item |
videopress_guid | (string) | (Video only) VideoPress GUID of the video when uploaded on a blog with VideoPress |
videopress_processing_done | (bool) | (Video only) If the video is Uuploaded on a blog with VideoPress, this will return the status of processing on the Video |
Resource Errors
This endpoint does not return any errors.
Example
curl \ -H 'authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN' \ 'https://public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1.1/sites/82974409/media/$media_ID/delete'
<?php $options = array ( 'http' => array ( 'ignore_errors' => true, 'method' => 'POST', 'header' => array ( 0 => 'authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN', ), ), ); $context = stream_context_create( $options ); $response = file_get_contents( 'https://public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1.1/sites/82974409/media/$media_ID/delete', false, $context ); $response = json_decode( $response ); ?>