Expiration date in custom field

[handig]

Hi,
Can't make this code snippet to work with Custom Code of Prose.

I was looking into setting an expiration date to posts so that they disappear when the date set is expired.

I was first looking into this plugin, but it seems to use cron jobs instead of custom fields.

So then I found this code here.

I'm using Prose with WP 3.7 so I thought I could add it to custom code which I did as follow:

/*
This function assumes a custom field named 'expiration' with a human friendly date/time.
*/
 
function is_post_expired($post_ID = null){
    
    if(!$post_ID) global $post;
    
    $post_ID = $post_ID ? $post_ID : $post->ID;
    
    //Human Friendly Expiration Date
    $expiration = get_post_meta($post_ID, 'expiration', true);
    
    //Adjust server time for your timezone
    date_default_timezone_set('American/New_York');
    
    $expiration_timestamp = strtotime($expiration);
    $time_left = $expiration_timestamp - time();
 
    if($time_left < 0):
        if(expire_post($post_ID))
            return true;
    endif;
        
}
 
function expire_post($post_ID){
    
    $args = array(
        'ID' => $post_ID,
        'post_status' => 'draft'
    );
    if(wp_update_post($args))
        return true;
}

I then set the custom fields to a date in the past like 10/10/2013 and 10 September 2012 but the posts are still shown.

What is wrong with the code?

http://test2.zzpmarketing.com/

[emasai]

Can't tell you what is wrong with it, but for php coding questions I usually go to Stackoverflow.com for answers.

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[handig]

I'm not so php apt. I saw the code snippet and was hoping I could add it like this to the custom code of Prose. So was wondering if somebody could see if that needs some small adaption or isn't a way to implement this?

[jamesparkin]

Handig

Have you been able to list yours posts in ascending order according to expiration date? I've been trying to get this code to work. Using Lifestyle Pro.

$args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘event’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 15, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ‘meta_key’ => ‘_expiration-date’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value’ );
$eventloop = new WP_Query( $args );
if ( $eventloop->have_posts() ) : while ( $eventloop->have_posts() ) : $eventloop->the_post();

//All the Loop Content Goes Here

endwhile;
endif;

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