Add Move to Trash Button on WordPress Admin Bar

If you are frequently making changes to your WordPress blog, you have have become tired of having to go through a bunch of menus to delete an out of date or irrelevant post. With a simple edit to your functions.php file, you can add a “Move to Trash” button to your WordPress Admin bar for simple deletes.

Open your functions.php file and add the following code:

<br />
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
// Start Add Delete Button to Admin Bar<br />
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
function fb_add_admin_bar_trash_menu() {<br />
  global $wp_admin_bar;<br />
  if ( !is_super_admin() || !is_admin_bar_showing() )<br />
      return;<br />
  $current_object = get_queried_object();<br />
  if ( empty($current_object) )<br />
      return;<br />
  if ( !empty( $current_object->post_type ) &&<br />
     ( $post_type_object = get_post_type_object( $current_object->post_type ) ) &&<br />
     current_user_can( $post_type_object->cap->edit_post, $current_object->ID )<br />
  ) {<br />
    $wp_admin_bar->add_menu(<br />
        array( 'id' => 'delete',<br />
            'title' => __('Move to Trash'),<br />
            'href' => get_delete_post_link($current_object->term_id)<br />
        )<br />
    );<br />
  }<br />
}<br />
add_action( 'admin_bar_menu', 'fb_add_admin_bar_trash_menu', 35 );<br />
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
// End Add Delete Button to Admin Bar<br />
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />

Note: Some of these functions are not of my own creation, simply things I have found along the way. If you are the author of this function, please let me know so I can properly credit you with your work!