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SafeDelete

Security covered Under active development 4 sites

This module prevents accidental deletion of content by verifying its usage and references, including those from LinkIt, media entities, and managed files. It also offers optional features to report on menu links pointing to archived content and to prevent publishing content without valid anchors.

Safe Delete

  • New in 1.0.74 - Vastly improved verification status messages, also added a new optional submodule which provides a report of menu links that link to archived (or other configurable moderation state) nodes of a configurable bundle type for a menu or several menus that are selected in the module settings.
  • New in 1.0.46 , add optional publishing verification that ensures linkit is used for anchors, prevents publishing unless anchor is a reference.
  • New in 1.0.29 , support verification of bulk delete when used with the latest release of moderated_content_bulk_publish and allow permission to override safe delete and show the delete button for files based on a permission that may be configured.
  • This module is built to prevent content atrophy by providing meaningful information about content usage and referenced content.
  • This module was originally designed to do validation to prevent deleting content that has referenced links created by linkit.
  • New in 1.0.5 now also supporting Managed Files usage verifications.
  • New in 1.0.1 now also supporting media entities and validates for usage of ckeditor body field embedded media entities.
  • New in 1.0.2 configurable definitions of 'orphaned' content and provide an orphan list page.
  • More helpful functionality will follow such as (friendly url and node/123 reference checks to be combined with the other results).

Features

  • Admin can limit the number of records to show on node delete form.
  • Validation on presave and on node delete confirmation page (safe delete) and validation on node save for archived moderation (safe archive)
  • More configuration options to follow

OPTIMAL USAGE:

Recommend using this module with Drupal core >=10.4.8, >= 11.1.8

Drupal 10–11 PHP >=8.1.0

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Dependencies of the latest stable release

  • linkit Drupal core
  • node Drupal core

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Activity

Tracked releases
56
Tracked since
Jan 2023
Latest release
1 month ago
Releases (12 mo)
13 ▼ from 17
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Release Timeline

Releases

Version Type Core PHP Release date
1.0.78 Stable 10–11 Jan 15, 2026
1.0.77 Stable 10–11 Dec 10, 2025
1.0.76 Stable 10–11 Nov 21, 2025
1.0.75 Stable 10–11 Sep 12, 2025
1.0.74 Stable 10–11 Sep 12, 2025
1.0.73 Stable 10–11 Sep 11, 2025
1.0.72 Stable 10–11 Sep 11, 2025
1.0.71 Stable 10–11 Sep 10, 2025
1.0.70 Stable 10–11 Sep 8, 2025
1.0.69 Stable 10–11 Sep 3, 2025