[wp-hackers] Data recovery (post_status?)

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Owen Winkler wrote:

> Undeleting categories will be a minor nightmare.  What would be the 
> greater faux pas: Providing no undelete or providing undelete on posts 
> but not on categories?  Arguably, deleting a category is more 
> difficult to recover from than deleting a post.  Besides that, 
> consistency is neat.

For me, deleting a category is a *very* rare event. The one time I did 
it, I made sure I had a current backup (and subsequently did restore the 
delete). I would vote for undelete functionality for posts/pages and 
even comments since it seems to me they would be the more common cases.

Bill