Trash & Revision History

What it is

Two safety nets that work quietly in the background on every article, page, and project: a trash bin for anything you delete, and a full history of every past version of anything you edit.

Why it matters

The fear behind both "did I really mean to delete that?" and "I liked it better before I changed that paragraph" is the same one: that a single click undid work you can't get back. SynaptikCMS treats both of those as recoverable by default, not as something you need to have planned for in advance with your own backups.

The Trash

Deleting something doesn't erase it — it moves to Admin → Trash, right where you'd expect it, showing who deleted it and when. From there you can put it straight back exactly as it was, or delete it permanently if you're certain. Anything left sitting in the trash clears out on its own after 30 days, so it doesn't need active management, but you get a full month to change your mind either way.

Revision History

Every time you save changes to something that already existed, the version you're replacing is kept, automatically, with nothing to turn on. Open an item's revision history to see exactly what changed between any two versions, side by side, and restore an older one in a couple of clicks if a recent change turns out to be a mistake. Restoring itself is just as safe — it saves the current version first, so even undoing something is never a one-way trip.

If you have several people writing on your site, this doubles as a quiet form of accountability too — you can always see what an item looked like before someone else's most recent edit.