Reply To: Expire Posts

• John Huebner

• January 20, 2022 at 11:18 am

I do not completely understand your code.

But this is setting the publish date to the current date

$published_date = date('m/d/Y');

also, because you are using ‘m/d/y’ which could give false results.

You also need to include the statement global $post in your function if you are going to use $query->the_post();

function listing_expiry_date() {
  global $post; // important
  
  // your query and loop
  
  // date calc
  $published_date = get_the_date('Y-m-d');
  $expire = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($published_date.' +3 days'));
  $today = date('Y-m-d');
  if ($today >= $expire) {
    // expire post
  }
}