Hello,
I am looking for a way to clean up a category. There are searches posted that are only valid for a certain period of time. Currently I close it after 2 months after the last answer.
Is there an automatic way to delete them after x days after closing?
I have found the following plugin, but it should not only delete topics that have not been replied to.
but then i would have to do this manually for each post? I can’t find a setting to automate this. There are currently over 7k entries in the category.
You might be able to have an Automation script. If a script does not currently exist. If you have the skills you can create an automation script. Or consider sponsoring one in Marketplace.
You can also add your vote to Category-level auto-delete topics the same as auto-close feature
Tagging on here as it seems related.
I just found two topic in the Deleted Topics logs which were “Deleted by Automatic Timer” and should not have been deleted. Both of these topics were created by me, splitting comments from a existing topics to a create the new topic which were auto-deleted ~12(?) days later. My best guess is the Delete Topic Timer was inadvertently set when I created these posts.
There is no Delete Topic Timer available to me in the moderator tools. I don’t see any Auto Delete Topic option as shown by @Heliosurge’s screencap above. The only timer I can control is to Close Comments.
So I think I understand why this happened, but I don’t know how to avoid it the next time. Is this a bug that can be fixed, or am I missing something?
TIA!
If you click on the wrench for your topic you will see Topic Timer. Click on that. There is a dropdown menu to choose things like auto close, auto delete and more.
There is a topic timer option in Category settings but only see it for auto close.
