Reply To: Delete repeater`s sub_field after expired date

• John Huebner

• October 4, 2022 at 10:05 am

To do this you need to use a CRON that:

1. Queries all the posts
2. Loops over the posts
3. Loops over the repeater on each post (in reverse – SEE NOTE)
4. Checks the date in each row
5. Deletes expired rows using delete_row()

Notes, you must delete the rows in revers order and you cannot use an have_rows loop to loop over the rows. The reason is this, lets say that you delete row 2, row 3 then becomes row 2 and the next iteration of the loop will look at row 3, which was row 4 before the deletion and the loop skips what was row 3 because it is now row 2.

$repeater = get_field('repeater_name');
// $repeater is an array of rows
$count = count($repeater);
for ($row=$count; $row>0; $row--) {
  if (//DATE EXPIRED//) {
    delete_row('repeater_name', $row);
  }
}