Some topics have that rule of being locked 30 days after the last reply, so I would assume this is set on a Category level? Is it possible to do the same, but completely delete topics? I know I can set a timer on a topic, manually, but I can’t seem to find anything related to Categories. So for example I want all topics older than N days to be deleted completely. Is this possible?

[image] Auto-delete topics in a category after X days? Support I don’t think it’s possible to automate this currently through any existing tools, but we do have an open #feature request for it:

On this reply: [image] Delete Unreplied Topics plugin Plugin @RGJ based on multiple requests from other users: couldn’t this plugin of yours be used as the foundation for a new plugin that deletes topics in a particular category if they are older than N days, set by the user? If your plugin is already scanning topics, wouldn’t it possible to set some rules that say: If category is X, scan for topics where the creation date and the current date is more than N days, and if so, delete them. I don’t know the ins and outs of creating and changing plugins,… I suggest that the plugin could be a foundation for a new plugin that does this, since a lot of users find this to be a useful feature. The plugin is already something that can be used to delete some older topics, but if we could have a plugin set to delete topics, regardless of how old the replies are, that would be perfect!

Delete topics automatically after N days inside a category

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ondrej March 8, 2025, 10:45am 3

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