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 …

Have you explored Topic timer? In the topic wrench. [This is a screenshot of a webpage showing a dropdown menu with the option to select a topic for a timer. (Captioned by AI)]

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(?…

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.

¿Eliminación automática de temas antiguos y cerrados?

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Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency) 13 Octubre, 2024 09:30 2

¿Has explorado el temporizador de temas? En la llave inglesa del tema.

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¿Eliminación automática de temas antiguos y cerrados?

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