Fires immediately before a post is deleted from the database.

$postid int

Post ID.

$post WP_Post

Post object.

Take note, by the time the hook triggers, the post comments and metadata would have already been deleted. Use the before_delete_post hook to catch post deletion before that.

File: wp-includes/post.php. View all references

do_action( 'delete_post', $postid, $post );