Advanced
Operational settings that don't belong to a specific tab: cron schedules, search and sitemap rebuilds, featured content, inline moderation, and bulk update.
Soft-delete retention
The Soft-deletion retention setting (default 30 days) controls how long a soft-deleted download stays recoverable before the daily cron purges it. Documented under audit and privacy options.
Authors can restore their own deleted downloads from their author page within this window. Authors with the Permanently delete own permission may purge their own downloads at any time, bypassing the retention window.
Comment soft-delete retention
The Soft-deleted comment retention setting (default 30 days) is the same shape, applied to comments. Documented under comments options.
Cron entries
Three daily cron jobs handle retention. They are visible at AdminCP > Tools > Cron entries:
| Cron entry | Default schedule | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Audit log retention | Daily at 03:00 | Anonymises audit IPs, prunes old log entries. |
| Hard-delete old records | Daily at 03:15 | Hard-deletes downloads, versions, and files past their soft-delete window. |
| Comment retention | Daily at 03:30 | Hard-deletes comments past their soft-delete window. |
To change a schedule, edit the entry at AdminCP > Tools > Cron entries.
Search rebuild
The add-on indexes downloads in the standard search system. After bulk imports or migrations, rebuild the search index from AdminCP > Tools > Rebuild caches > Search index, picking "Downloads" from the type dropdown.
Sitemap
Categories and downloads contribute to the sitemap. To rebuild after large changes, navigate to AdminCP > Tools > Rebuild caches > Sitemap.
You can exclude individual categories from the sitemap by editing the category and ticking Exclude from sitemap under the SEO section. The same panel also has Exclude from search index.
Featured content
You can mark downloads as featured from any download view (with the Feature moderator permission) or from inline moderation on a category listing. Featured downloads appear in any widget bound to the FeaturedContent surface.
Grant the Feature permission in the Downloads moderator group to choose who can mark featured.
Inline moderation
Bulk operations on downloads (move, soft-delete, undelete, hard-delete, approve, unapprove) use the standard inline-mod toolbar. Tick the rows on a listing, choose an action from the dropdown that appears at the bottom, and confirm. Every action writes an entry to the audit log.
For details on which operations are available where, see inline moderation.
Batch update
AdminCP > [MC] Downloads Manager > Batch update offers a smaller scoped tool for re-running file processors against existing files, re-validating uploaded URLs, and recomputing per-download size totals. It acts on filtered ranges and writes audit log entries on a per-target basis.