Reply To: Can I delete images permanently?

• Elliot

• September 9, 2013 at 1:14 pm

Hi @pjeaje

By default, no.

However, you could hook into the image update_value action and look for an empty value. If found, you could lookup the old value (get_field) and then use the ID to remove it from the DB completely.

You can target all image update_value actions like so:

function my_acf_update_value( $value, $post_id, $field  )
{
    // do something else to the $post object via the $post_id
 
    return $value;
}
 
add_filter('acf/update_value/type=image', 'my_acf_update_value', 10, 3);

Learn more:
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/filters/acfupdate_value/