Just to let users know:

This is a cron job, you can disable it if you wish, then just click "Run Now" whenever you want and boom all visitor messages are gone!

Regards Jason :)

I think it's better that this hack only delete the mesasges which has been posted 30 days ago or more. not to delete all of the messages every 30 days.

thanks for this hack anyway!

Good suggestion, I will try and get it working for you.

Thanks, Paul.

Thanks for your reply and I appreciate your work.;)

I think this would make it more useful for other vb admins. But to make it even more appealing, here are some more suggestions.

1. Visitor messages limit, if possible different settings for each user group.
2. Exclude certain user groups to make it more attractive to subscribe for paid subscriptions or to join the moderator team.

Thank you!

I second that :D

And the one about only deleting 30+ old messages, not the newnew ones :)

Thanks!

Hi,

Open visitormessagedelete.php file and

find :
$vbulletin->db->query_write("DELETE FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "visitormessage");

replace with:

$vbulletin->db->query_write("DELETE FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."visitormessage where FROM_UNIXTIME(dateline )<SUBDATE(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 30 DAY )");

it will work.

You can change 30 DAY with whatever you want. You can also change cron job to run this script every day

;)

Thanks, and thank you Paul. Installed!

Installed!
Thanks !

That and to save you loading time. I have like a hundred messages on my profile and it's slow! Thanks for this.

Also: Is there a way to make it so that certain members/usergroups do not get theirs deleted.