I’d love to see the ability to have topics automatically expire. In other words, if a topic hasn’t had a new post in a given amount of time, it could optionally be closed or deleted automatically. For those of us that wish to keep our databases small, this might be pretty helpful.

[@_ck_ Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

This would be a very simple plugin.

I’ll try to whip it up for you when I have a moment.

[@_ck_ Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Untested. auto-closes a topic on-the-fly when someone visits it and it’s last post is 90 days old (adjustable)

add_action('bb_head','auto_close_topic');

function auto_close_topic() {

global $topic;

if (is_topic() && $topic->topic_open===1) {

$old=time()-3600*24*90; // 90 days default

if (strtotime($topic->topic_time)<$old) {

bb_close_topic($topic->topic_id);

$topic->topic_open=0;  // just in case the cache doesn't clear

}

}

}

[@ddemeo Member 16 years, 3 months ago]

You’re the best, _ck_! I’ll try it!