XF 1.4 Purge threads older than X days

Tiscan

Member
Hey,

One feature I very much would like to see is being able to set forums to purge threads older than a admin defined number of days.

This is awesome for news forums, event forums etc that don't want thousands of posts that have no relevance or search value.

I swear I saw a mod to do this once but I can't find it now. Regardless it would be preferred for it to be in the base package as a feature.
 
It can be done manually using the Batch Update Threads tool in the Admin CP.

Just select the date depending on what criteria you wish to use:
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It will find a list of threads and give you options to delete them, soft delete them or move them.
 
Interesting. Is there way for me to cron this to happen daily? Basically I would want to set a number of forums to purge and have it delete anything X number of days or older.
 
Nope, never did. I try to avoid add-ons as much as I can so I am just manually doing it every once in a while.

I still think it would be a good feature to have included in the base package though.
 
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