XF 1.4 Purge threads older than X days

[Tiscan]

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.

 

[Chris D]

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:


It will find a list of threads and give you options to delete them, soft delete them or move them.

 

[Tiscan]

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.

 

[Paul B]

That would require an add-on or custom development.

 

[Mouth]

I swear I saw a mod to do this once but I can't find it now

Did you discover this? I'm looking for something similiar.

 

[Tiscan]

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.

 

[Mouth]

Nope, never did.

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/advanced-thread-archiver.3601/

 

[Skylined]

This?

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/auto-delete.3073/

 

[AndyB]

I swear I saw a mod to do this once but I can't find it now.

Did you discover this? I'm looking for something similiar.

Here you go:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/auto-delete.3073/