Clean up old topics

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Hi! I’m happy to know that Discourse worked very well for your project

@gjsman

We can’t find (and I really doubt) the existence of any clean way to remove, say, the oldest year’s worth of topics.

Just to be sure to understand; your criteria to make a topic eligible for deletion would be only its age?

There’s no built-in feature in the interface that would allow that, but you could create and manually trigger a rails script that would delete topics older than a certain date.

Bulk delete all topics in a category

To delete all topics from a category, you will need access SSH access to your server. If you use managed Discourse hosting, get in touch with your provider and ask them to help. If you run your own server, here are the steps you need to take to delete all topics in a category: This is a destructive action. Make sure to back up your forum before continuing Deleting Categories Find the “slug” of your category. This is the name of category used in the URL. SSH into the server …

Topic.where("created_at.....").destroy_all

Between brackets is a SQL query.