@robin-w It would have taken hours and hours and hours to get ride off all I needed to get rid of. So THANK YOU!
@robin-w
WHOA!!!!
I had two topics, both with 449 replies. I removed on the old fashioned way. It took 4:58 to send to the trash and 9:03 to empty the trash. So basically 13 minutes to get rid of it.
On topic 2, I used your plugin. I used the “Permanently Delete any – delete topics with a status of publish or trashed – deletes topics and their replies in the database” option. It took 6-7 seconds to be permanently gone! I then removed a topic with 2200 replies and it removed in the same amount of time.
OUTSTANDING WORK!!!!
@robin-w absolutely zero rush at all. Have some fun!!!
I am excited to see what you come up with. Right now I have 2 topics, both with 449 replies, that I would love to test out once you have something ready. Delete one the old fashion way and see how long it takes and then your new way. Right now I am guessing the current way would take 6-7min to send to the trash and another 9-11min to completely delete.
Hey @robin-w … have you had any luck implementing something in to your plugin?
I totally get that you are not an author… Your bbp Style Pack is the first plugin I added to my install.
My site is a gathering of sports fans. So we have a lot of threads that get very big. I do a few things since I just moved over from a phpBB board. I first took some topics that were several years old and had thousands of replies and first split them up. Only keeping the newer posts. Then took the older thread and put it in a holding area. Then I break them down in to smaller pieces so I can delete them. This is the part that is taking forever to do.
This is sort of a first time clean up of the old phpBB board after I imported it to bbPress. So once I get through that, I can see a time where I am not deleting old threads as much.
But for the long haul, I can see where I would regularly close threads and want to delete them. So I like how I can just put topics in a “holding” forum that only I can see. Then if you have a way through your plugin that I can enter a topic ID for deletion would work perfect!
I have had to break huge topics down to 300-500 replies. Then trash and empty the trash each of those smaller topics one by one. There is no such thing as bulk deletion for me. 🙂
Well… this board and the board that supports WordPress are straight up Q&A boards. People asking questions like I am.
But my board is a discussion board/forum. So you have topics that get hundreds, even thousands of replies. So I was just wondering how that is handled. Nice to know that this is something you just happen to be looking at! So you go do your thing!
