# Time-based Close Topics and Solved plugin

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-based-close-topics-and-solved-plugin/77464
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** solved
**Created:** [January 8, 2018, 11:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-based-close-topics-and-solved-plugin/77464 "2018-01-08T11:23:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![charliel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/charliel/32/120555_2.png) [@charliel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charliel)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2018, 11:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-based-close-topics-and-solved-plugin/77464/1 "2018-01-08T11:23:53Z")

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Hi,

We want to auto-close topics 30 days after the last post in a topic.

For the site-wide option I can see this: ‘Auto close topic (n) hours after the last reply once the topic has been marked as solved’

At the category level I can see this: ‘Don’t close until the last post in the topic is at least this old.’

For the category level option, does it matter if the topic has been marked as solved or not? Because we want to auto-close the topic after 30 days regardless of whether the topic has been marked as solved. So really we want the category level option but site-wide.

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2018, 11:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-based-close-topics-and-solved-plugin/77464/2 "2018-01-08T11:25:22Z")

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> [@charliel](#):
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> For the category level option, does it matter if the topic has been marked as solved or not?

It does not matter.

> [@charliel](#):
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> So really we want the category level option but site-wide.

Apply the setting to all your categories? 😉

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2020, 6:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-based-close-topics-and-solved-plugin/77464/3 "2020-03-22T06:57:06Z")

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2020, 6:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-based-close-topics-and-solved-plugin/77464/4 "2020-04-21T06:57:08Z")

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