Strapi v4 - Soft Delete plugin

Powerful Strapi based Soft Delete feature, never loose content again

A plugin for Strapi Headless CMS that provides a Soft Delete feature.

✨ Features

🛢 Database
- Adds deletedAt and deletedBy fields to all your collection and single content types.
🗂️ Content Manager & API
- The normal delete functionality behaves as the soft delete. It will set the deletedAt field to the current date and deletedBy field to the admin user that deleted it.
- 👤 RBAC
  - The name of the existing admin permission reflects the soft delete functionality. The Delete is renamed to Soft Delete and it is located in the Settings > Roles > Edit a Role > Collection Types | Single Types section.
  - A new admin permission is added to the Settings > Roles > Edit a Role > Collection Types | Single Types section. This is the Deleted Read permission. This will allow the admin user to view the soft deleted entries.
  - A new admin permission is added to the Settings > Roles > Edit a Role > Collection Types | Single Types section. This is the Deleted Restore permission. This will allow the admin user to restore the soft deleted entries.
  - A new admin permission is added to the Settings > Roles > Edit a Role > Collection Types | Single Types section. This is the Delete Permanently permission. This will allow the admin user to delete permanently the soft deleted entries.
🗂️ Adds a Soft Delete item in the Admin left Panel to access the Soft Deleted content explorer. This will list all the content types. You can restore or delete permanently the entries from here.
- Adds a Restore action through the Soft Delete in the Admin Panel to the content types. This will set the deletedAt field to null and deletedBy field to null, thus restoring it.
- Adds a Delete Permanently action through the Soft Delete in the Admin Panel to the content types. This will delete the entry permanently.

📦 Compatibility

Strapi Version	Plugin Version
v4	1.0.0
v3	Not Supported

This plugin is designed for Strapi v4 and will not work with v3.x.

⏳ Installation

To install this plugin, you need to add an NPM dependency to your Strapi application:

# Using Yarn
yarn add strapi-plugin-soft-delete

# Or using PNPM
pnpm add strapi-plugin-soft-delete

# Or using NPM
npm install strapi-plugin-soft-delete

Then, you'll need to build your admin panel:

# Using Yarn
yarn build

# Or using PNPM
pnpm run build

# Or using NPM
npm run build

Edit your config/plugins.js|ts or config/<env>/plugins.js|ts file and add the following configuration:

// ...
  "soft-delete": {
    enabled: true,
  },
// ...

Finally, start your application:

# Using Yarn
yarn develop

# Or using PNPM
pnpm run develop

# Or using NPM
npm run develop

🤝 Contributing

Feel free to fork and make a PR if you want to add something or fix a bug.

👨‍💻 Community support

For general help using Strapi, please refer to the official Strapi documentation. For additional help, you can use one of these channels to ask a question:

Discord I'm present on official Strapi Discord workspace. Find me by ChristopheCVB.
GitHub (Bug reports, Contributions, Questions and Discussions)