Expire is a Vanilla extension that will automatically close, sink or hide discussions that have no new comments for a certain number of days. Sticky discussions are always active and will never expire. No more than once per day, Expire will check for inactive discussions and hide those discussions or mark them as Closed or Sink.
In order for Vanilla to recognize an extension, it must be contained within its own directory within the extensions directory. So, once you have downloaded and unzipped the Expire files, you can then place the folder containing the default.php file into your installation of Vanilla. The path to Expire's default.php file should look like this:
/path/to/vanilla/extensions/Expire/default.php
Once this is complete, you can enable Expire through the "Manage Extensions" form on the settings tab in Vanilla.
The easiest way to change Expire's settings is to install and enable SetList. Once you enable SetList, forum administrators will see a link to Expire in the side panel of the Vanilla settings page.
Expire has four settings. They are stored in Vanilla's
conf/settings.php
file.
Expire was written by squirrel. Part of the Vanilla Friends project.