Delete images and expired ads

Hi,
the expired ads are not being deleted, right now if you want to have them removed you would need to do it manually from wp-admin panel.

That being said, deleting an Advert will delete only the Ad the images will not be removed since they are stored as attachments and its possible that some other page is using the image.

I will most likely add an option to delete the Ad along with the attachments when deleting from wp-admin (there actually should be a code snippet for that somewhere on this forum).

I am not sure about deleting the expired Ads automatically, for a user that might be an unexpected behavior to have the Ad removed from [adverts_manage] panel.

Hi,
In Hungary, ads are archived for 15 days after their expiration, after which they are deleted.

Hi,
ok i did not know that, when i will find some free time, i will prepare a code snippet that will delete the expired Ads automatically.

Hopefully, it will be ready next week.

Hi,

Thanks in advance

I am really looking to the setting option of deleting Ad images along with the Ad being deleted. I hope the feature can be added in the next version. Maybe you can check out this plugin im not sure if it will work. https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/dx-delete-attached-media/

Hi,
i am hoping to have the extension which will delete the expired Ads (with attached images) ready this week.

I will post in this thread when it’s done.

Hello

We wait

Thanks

Here you can find the Auto Delete Expired snippet https://github.com/simpliko/wpadverts-snippets/blob/master/auto-delete-expired/auto-delete-expired.php, you can install it the same way as any other snippet https://github.com/simpliko/wpadverts-snippets/.

By default it will trash the Ads which expired over 15 days ago. To modify the behavior open the wp-config.php file and add there any of the below constants

// delete the ads 30 days after expiration
define( "AUTO_DELETE_EXPIRED_DELTA", 30 );
// skip the trash and delete ads permanently
define( "AUTO_DELETE_EXPIRED_FORCE_DELETE", true );
// also delete the ad attachments
define( "AUTO_DELETE_EXPIRED_ATTACHMENTS", true );

The snippet can permanently delete the Ads from your database so use it with caution.

It’s best to do a full site backup, enable the snippet and check if the correct Ads are being deleted.

The snippet will be run from WP-CRON once a day.

Hi,

Thank you on behalf of everyone

If I understand correctly, you will put it in the trash after 15 days?

this is the code:
// delete the ads 30 days after expiration
define( “AUTO_DELETE_EXPIRED_DELTA”, 30 )

Delete forever?

Hi,
1. yes, by default the Ads will be put to Trash after 15 days.

2. to delete them forever (after 15 days and skip the trash) use this code in wp-config.php

define( "AUTO_DELETE_EXPIRED_FORCE_DELETE", true );

hello,

It works perfectly.

thanks