Reply To: Cron Jobs & Date Checking

• John Huebner

• July 21, 2016 at 6:29 am

You need to have a loop in order to get and update fields.
Your query should already be returning the posts that you want
to update and you shouldn’t need to test them again.

// Scheduled Action Hook
function check_job_end_date( ) {
  // Variables
  $today = date('Ymd');  
  
  // Query
  $listings = new WP_Query(
    array(
      'post_type' => 'job_listings',
      'meta_query' => array(
        'key'     => 'job_listing_closing_date',
        'value'   => $today,
        'compare' => '<'
      )
    )
  );
  
  global $post;
  if ($listings->have_posts()) {
    while ($listings->have_post()) {
      $listings->the_post();
      update_field('job_listing_job_status', 'Closed');
    }
    wp_reset_postdata();
  }
}