In Django Admin how do I disable the Delete link

Question

I\'ve managed to disable the \"Delete selected\" action. Easy.

But a user can still click on an item and then there\'s the red Delete link at the bottom.

Answer 1

The solutions here are already nice, but I prefer to have it as a reusable mixin, like this:

class NoDeleteAdminMixin:
    def has_delete_permission(self, request, obj=None):
        return False

You can use this in all your admins where you want to prevent deletion like this:

class MyAdmin(NoDeleteAdminMixin, ModelAdmin):
    ...