I know that each topic has a timer that allows deletion in a certain amount of time. But how to do this with ALL topics and posts older than 2 months? And just leave one or another topic that I want? By the way, how do I know which files (Photo, video, audio etc) my members are uploading on the fo…

I would guess the reason could be exacly same why chat has such time limit. All content is not ment to live long. In this case I assume it has something to do with lack of hard drive space.

I asked a similar question: [image] Automatically delete topics in a category if no reply within set period Support I’ve set up RSS Polling and would like to be able to automatically delete the RSS topics after a while if nobody has replied to them. Would…

I think I was confused by the ‘all’. Topics with no replies, or topics in certain categories does make more sense. Though reading some of the OPs other recent topics, it does seem to be about storage space as @Jagster says. I don’t think using the soft-delete options in the UI would work for that …

Wouldn’t this harm SEO or is that not a concern? History is your hook into internet search. Far better to migrate to a bigger server with more space?

No server space, and no money to buy more space. In my country the dollar is very high. Also, something very annoying happens when new members of my forum comment on a topic with more than 1 year of existence.

It depends. It is much harder to get some SEO value fo forum topics. It looks like Google values heavily the very first post, not following answers. But the first one quite often is not that… good in the meaning what people are searching for. Sure, something like ServerFault, StackOverflow etc has …

[image] Jakke Flemming: em nada a ver com SEO. SEO significa apenas para conteúdo que é usado, de alguma forma. What is SEO? I couldn’t translate this

The dollar in my country is very high. I can’t pay more server to keep old content. Is there a way to automatically delete this? If not, how do I delete content older than 3 months?

Those acronyms sucks :wink: Search Engine Optimization. Everything we should do to help Google showing our content before other hits. It has expanded to include very abstract value how Google is ranking every content.

How to delete ALL topics and posts older than 2 months?

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JammyDodger October 13, 2022, 5:50am 2

I am not sure why you would want to do this? It seems an overly destructive action for a forum?

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How to delete ALL topics and posts older than 2 months?

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