Reply To: Expire post to draft

• lsterling03

• May 31, 2017 at 5:50 am

Just wanted to add that wstaley’s solution worked great for me, but you need to change his greater-than symbol to less-than. I also am not using the time of day, only the date, for expiration, so I changed time() to date().

Here is my working code:

// expire offer posts on date field.
if (!wp_next_scheduled('expire_posts')){
  wp_schedule_event(time(), 'twicedaily', 'expire_posts'); // this can be hourly, twicedaily, or daily
}

add_action('expire_posts', 'expire_posts_function');

function expire_posts_function() {
	$today = date('Ymd');
	$args = array(
		'post_type' => array('offer'), // post types you want to check
		'posts_per_page' => -1 
	);
	$posts = get_posts($args);
	foreach($posts as $p){
		$expiredate = get_field('valid_end_date', $p->ID, false, false); // get the raw date from the db
		if ($expiredate) {
			if($expiredate < $today){
				$postdata = array(
					'ID' => $p->ID,
					'post_status' => 'draft'
				);
				wp_update_post($postdata);
			}
		}
	}
}