# Soft-delete override? **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/soft-delete-override/356320 **Category:** Support **Created:** [March 7, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/soft-delete-override/356320 "2025-03-07T17:22:55Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin) #### Post date: [March 7, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/soft-delete-override/356320/3 "2025-03-07T19:23:00Z")
Hello Shoq, Is this what you’re looking for? > [@Introducing permanently delete post functionality](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-permanently-delete-post-functionality/207109): > > When a post is deleted in Discourse, we perform a soft-delete. This means that post is still present in the database in case an administrator wants to recover it later. A soft-delete is not sufficient when the deleted post contains sensitive information and must be pruned from the database completely. For those situations, we are introducing the ability to permanently delete a post. To use this feature, enable the can permanently delete setting. However, please be aware of the risks i… > [@Enable setting to allow admins to permanently delete data](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-setting-to-allow-admins-to-permanently-delete-data/206678): > > bookmark This is a guide on how to enable the setting for administrators to permanently delete data on a Discourse instance. person_raising_hand Required user level: Admin As of [v2026.4.0 Changelog | Discourse Releases](https://releases.discourse.org/changelog/v2026.4.0/?filter=permanently_delete&tab=feature) the site setting to allow admins to permanently delete data is no longer a hidden site setting. To use this feature, enable the can permanently delete setting. However, please be aware of the risks involved with this feature — as the setting name suggests, if you permanen… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/soft-delete-override/356320)._