Yes, we noticed that the forum web page needs to be active to trigger the auto prune and the knowledge base that you referred helped us understanding as well.Auto prune will only be triggered when a user enters the forum even if you set it to run daily, if no one enters the forum for 5 months then the forum will not be pruned until someone enters the forum after the 5 months. The user that triggered the auto prune is then added into the Admin log so the Admin knows when the pruning took place and which user triggered it by entering the forum.
Knowledge Base - Pruning - what is it and how is it used?.
Am I missing something though? If the board you’re talking about is the one in your signature the oldest posts are around Feb 21 2024 which is ±35 days old.
My bad i kind of didn't explain fully, we cloned the db into dev just for testing our sql scripts, auto pruning & archiving logic etc. The other thing that we wanted to try on the board on my signature was to delete some of the old posts since Google is struggling to crawl the webpages and its delaying the new pages crawl since it has tons of old pages that it has not finished yet. So we decided to auto prune set 35 days yesterday so it has deleted some of the old topics, hopefully this helps Google to crawl little faster. Currently we have the page redirect for the older pages that's on Google but we are still looking for a bulk move to archive forum solution to not to mess with old google seo pages and still create new topics URL on sitemap.xml. Thanks.
Statistics: Posted by dextrous — Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:40 pm
