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Is there a programme/plugin for Archive settings where I can archive topics after a given amount of time, e.g. 3 months, to tidy up forums?
Thanks in advance
Jo

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 9 months ago]

Put this in your child theme’s function file – or use

Code Snippets

change the ‘-10 days’ to say ‘-90 days’ if you want 3 months

register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'bbpress_topic_scheduler');

add_action('bbpress_daily_event', 'bbpress_close_old_topics');

function bbpress_topic_scheduler() {
 wp_schedule_event(time(), 'daily', 'bbpress_daily_event');
}

function bbpress_close_old_topics() {
	// Auto close old topics
	$topics_query = array(
		'author' => 0,
		'show_stickies' => false,
		'parent_forum' => 'any',
		'post_status' => 'publish',
		'posts_per_page' => -1
	);
	if ( bbp_has_topics( $topics_query ) )
		while( bbp_topics() ) {
			bbp_the_topic();
			$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
			$last_active = strtotime( get_post_meta( $topic_id, '_bbp_last_active_time', true ) );
			if ($last_active < strtotime( '-10 days') )
				bbp_close_topic( $topic_id );
		}
}

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 9 months ago]

The above will ‘close’ the topic, if you want it archived, then in effect you will need to trash it, this just puts it in the trash, so it can be recovered

to do this replace

bbp_close_topic( $topic_id );

with

bbp_trash_topic( $topic_id );

[@writersabroad Participant 4 years, 9 months ago]

Thanks, Robin. Am I able to do this for topics in specific forums? Rather than all…Thanks… Jo

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 9 months ago]

yes, just change the line

'parent_forum' => 'any',

to

'parent_forum' => '123456',

you can find a forums number by looking at the url whilst you are editing it

dashboard>forums>all forums>edit (the forum you want) and in the url bar you will see

http://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=28109&action=edit

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 9 months ago]

if you want several change

'parent_forum' => 'any',

to

'post_parent__in' => array( 2, 5, 12, 14, 20 ),

[@writersabroad Participant 4 years, 9 months ago]

Thanks, Robin. One last question 🙂 If I want it to delete topics I presume I change the code

bbp_close_topic( $topic_id );

to

bbp_delete_topic( $topic_id );

A lot of the posts I want to get rid of have images so trying to clean up and free space… thanks again!

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 9 months ago]

yes, should be

[@writersabroad Participant 4 years, 9 months ago]

Robin, sorry another quick question do I have to replace all references to ‘close’ with ‘delete instead in the other sections of the code? e.g in this one

add_action(‘bbpress_daily_event’, ‘bbpress_close_old_topics’)

Thanks… sorry I’m not more up on this kind of thing…

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 9 months ago]

no need to change them – they are only names, although you could change

add_action('bbpress_daily_event', 'bbpress_close_old_topics');

to

add_action('bbpress_daily_event', 'bbpress_delete_old_topics');

and

function bbpress_close_old_topics() {
	// Auto close old topics

to

function bbpress_delete_old_topics() {
	// Auto delete old topics

which would just make it clearer what it was doing – but not necessary !!

[@writersabroad Participant 4 years, 9 months ago]

Thanks so much, help much appreciated.
Jo