[jimmy369]

I hope that it is appropriate to ask this question here. (WordPress 4.9.8, bbPress 2.5.14, Theme:TwentyTen)
I hope that one of my forums can automatically close the topics after 30 minutes.
I read this discussion (https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/auto-close-topic-after-some-time-days/) and tried to modify it myself, but I failed.
Later I found a plugin called BBP Close Old Topics (https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-close-old-topics/).
I tried to modify it myself, but in the end it can only be automatically close the topics after one day.
I guess… is this the problem with these code?

// Get timestamp of last activity of the topic.
		$last_active = strtotime( get_post_field( 'post_date', bbp_get_topic_last_active_id( $topic_id ) ) );

		// Compare last active timestamp with defined time period.
		if ( $last_active < strtotime( '-' . $this->old_topic_age_setting() . 'days' ) ) :

Is there something missing here that the command can only catch D (day) and not catch i (minute)?

I’m at my wits’ end with this issue……Thank you so much.

[jd-fb]

I noticed that there is no space before the word “days” in your line here
if ( $last_active < strtotime( '-' . $this->old_topic_age_setting() . 'days' ) ) :

This means that it’ll result in “-1days”, and every example I’ve seen for strtotime() has a space before the word “days”, so ‘-1 days’.

I haven’t used strtotime() a lot so I’m not totally sure, but that one space could make a difference.

[Robin W]

@jimmy369 I will get round to answering this – but weekend here and I am away.

If I haven’t responded in 4 days time, then post a new entry reminding me, and I’ll work on it.

[jimmy369]

Hi Robin, So sorry for late reply.

Yes, I still stuck on the issue. Hoping the topics of the certain forum (by forum ID) can automatically close after 30 minutes, even if it has updated during this period. I paste the original code of the plugin and I have tried to modify it but failed. I will appreciate your patience and help with this situation.

[jimmy369]

@robin-w

Thank you Robin.

I want the 30 minutes to be

-from original topic creation.

[Robin W]

ok, try this – I think it works all fine, but let me know

what it does is check every 5 minutes that any topic posted over 1/2 hour is closed.

It will close all existing topics that meet this criteria.

A topic will therefore be closed 30-35 minutes after the original post date

BbPress close topic automatically 1/2 hour after topic is posted

[jimmy369]

@robin-w

Thank you Robin. It’s working well.

You are awesome!

[Robin W]

great – thanks for letting me know – enjoyed coding it!