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By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:34:20 +0000

@Josh, I just tried the plug with WP 2.9.1 and it worked fine. What specifically is broken for you?

By: josh

josh — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:39:16 +0000

Does not seem to be working with wordpress 2.9 has anyone had any luck? Thanks

By: Kurt

Kurt — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:05:00 +0000

It seems I’m looking for a similar solution that Jay wants where posts in certain categories get moved after a set amount of days, and have them be removed a few days later. Any word on the changes/timespan of this getting implemented?

Thanks.

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By: Costya

Costya — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:10:54 +0000

hi.
I heve problem, when using “auto delete posts plugin”.
I get 500 internal server error.
Need help, plz.

By: Jay Versluis

Jay Versluis — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:36:57 +0000

Hi Ashwin,

thanks for your email. I understand that MOVE and DELETE are mutually exclusive options. In my 2.8.4 installation, I’ve tried both – and it looks like MOVE works fine, but DELETING seems to cause the plugin to hang.

I’m not quite sure why, possibly because there are too many posts to delete. I’ve checked my database, and PHPMyAdmin seems confident there are no errors. I can manually delete my posts, but the plugin doesn’t want to do it.

Basically the site syndicates 100+ posts a day using the Feed Wordpress plugin, so now I’m looking for a way to delete them automatically after say 3 months.

I can setup a user name for you on a beta version I’ve got running ifyou like, so you can have a poke.

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:42:54 +0000

@Jay,

Just sent you an email, but basically the plugin can only perform one action at a time in its current state. Looks you’re looking to delete all posts more than a day old but only a handful, so that’s an option I could add.

Alternatively, requests have been made to add a archive & delete option whereby posts would expire and be moved into a archive category and posts from the archive category that over a year (or other large number of days) old would be deleted..

Looks like you’re also looking for something like that?

By: Jay Versluis

Jay Versluis — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:07:17 +0000

Hi Ashwin,

I’m trying to use your excellent Auto-Delete-Posts plugin for my a cople of automated websites. These read feeds, then syndicate them into one site. Your plugin would be an ideal way to keep them under control.

Trouble is, it’s not working as expected. I’d like it to delete 50-100 posts per day (not in one go, but throughout the day). It moves posts to a different (say “expired”) category, but doesn’t want to delete.

If I update a post (to start the process manually), all I get is a blank page upon publishing it. The change is made, but I think the plugin hangs somewhere.

Any thoughts?

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:33:13 +0000

Hi, Ashwin:

It looks like none of the posts have been deleted. Were you able to go in and poke around?

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:42:37 +0000

@bintaman, the option to select multiple categories was requested and I’ve added it to the update that I’ll be publishing shortly. I’m working on one last feature and if it looks like that’s going to take longer than it should, I’ll push the rest of the update and work on that one feature for a later update.

So either way, expect something to be sent tonight and you should be able to update the plugin and select multiple or all categories in a day or two..