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Strategies for managing Orphaned content?

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I am running into an interesting situation on my Epi projects.  The scenario is simple: A page is added, blocks are added locally to the page, and then the page is later deleted.  What I am finding is that the blocks still exist in the system even though their parent page is removed.  I can pull up their edit URL directly if I know the Content ID, but cannot delete the block from this interface.

How do you properly managed orphaned blocks on your projects?  Should I create a scheduled task that purges unused blocks periodically?  Is there a community plugin that will give me a view into unused blocks?

#226992
Aug 25, 2020 13:48
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You can check out the Episerver audit tool to find unused content for instance https://blog.nicolaayan.com/2018/05/episerver-cms-audit-nuget-package/

#226993
Aug 25, 2020 14:04
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We recently created a scheduled job to remove unused (from code) content types with all the content it uses. See the first file in this Gist: https://gist.github.com/johanbenschop/299ad31f8f63304578fb499549385659

#226996
Aug 25, 2020 15:17
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