Archiving forums on time basis in drupal 7

Question

I am using advance forum on drupal 7. I want to add following functionality to it:

Archiving:

I could define forum posts older than 6 months or so should be automatically be archived and visible only to admin.

Any module or pointers to achieve same highly appreciated.

Answer 1

You could use the Rules module.

Create a rule to set the node status to "unpublished" when the node is older than 6 months and make it execute every time the cron runs.

Also, make sure you allow only the admin to see the unpublished content