Solution to automatically delete posts over x days old?

  • HF T

    (@hftraders)


    14 years ago

    Hi,

    Is anybody aware of a simple solution to delete posts older than x days old, but only in one specific category? I’d rather not have to do this (relatively) simple task manually….

    I have a category with has automatically created posts from RSS feeds which adds about 35 posts a day which are outdated after ~3 months.

    The plugins for this seem to be thin and ineffective for this.

    I’ve seen that there might be a way to achieve this through setting up a cron job? Is there anything easier to use?

    Any help is appreciated!

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    check this plugin and see if can work for you.

    Thread Starter HF T

    (@hftraders)

    Hi t-p,

    Thanks for the pointer, however that’s the (ineffective) plugin which I was referring to.

    My problem is that I need to delete only posts from ‘category x’ which are over 90 days old however leave the posts in the other categories.

    It’s possible to run a MySQL database query to do it but I don’t know if this can be automated through a cron job or similar?

    Has anybody got any ideas about that?

    Thanks

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