id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
8909	Make delete_attachment action hook helpful	filosofo	anonymous	"Similar to the situation with [ticket:2956 delete_user], the {{{delete_attachment}}} action hook fires off too late to be of much use: at that point the attachment and all of its data have been deleted.

People have complained about this [http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2009-January/023846.html here] and [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/226773 here].

I grepped through the plugin repository, and of about 6200 plugins, only 5 use the delete_attachment hook: audit-trail, karailievs-sitemap, lumberjack, power-thumbnail, vivtiger-image-resizer.  (One other one---scissors---complains in a comment about the fact that the hook can't be used at that point).  

Of those plugins that use delete_attachment, it appears that none would be adversely affected by my patch.  In fact, at least one (vivtiger-image-resizer) has a conditional block based on getting back post information from the id passed to the callback, something that currently cannot happen, so my patch should apparently keep it from having orphaned thumbnails. "	defect (bug)	closed	normal	2.8	General	2.8	normal	fixed	delete_attachment has-patch	filosofo