Automatically Expiring old posts

  • Resolved Ray Hollister

    (@rayhollister)


    2 years, 10 months ago

    Ever since 2.7, whenever we open an old post, the “Enable Post Expiration” box is checked, and the current time and date is selected as the expiration date.

    Our users, which mostly do not use this feature, update their article, and then it automatically expires because they don’t notice the menu item is checked.

    Here’s a screenshot showing the issue.

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Ray Hollister.
    • This topic was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Ray Hollister.
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  • We use Gutenberg as well and have the issue as well as Ray in all browsers (also in private mode).

    Plugin Author Steve Burge

    (@stevejburge)

    There’s a lot of random feedback being posted here without any useful details included.

    If you want to help debug this for your site, please post 3 things:

    1. Use a plugin like this to rollback to an earlier version: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-rollback/. What specific versions do work correctly?
    2. Disable other plugins one-by-one. Is there a plugin conflict here?
    3. Share a screenshot of your “Defaults” and “Post Type” settings.

    I did #1 earlier. Here are my screenshots. I don’t have time to do #2 right now.

    defaults: https://drive.google.com/file/d/185o07eNz1loyxocupZJ65aOuiE8S-UMA/view?usp=sharing

    post types: https://drive.google.com/file/d/186D4WwXFxP8YYV-_CkPntX6fiFnXq67L/view?usp=sharing

    Here are the debug logs at the last automatic delete:

    2022-01-22 13:30:18	77 -> NO PAYLOAD ON SAVE_POST
2022-01-22 13:29:02	77 -> PROCESSED delete Array ( [expireType] => delete [category] => [categoryTaxonomy] => [enabled] => 1 )
2022-01-22 13:28:44	77 -> SCHEDULED at Sat, 22 Jan 2022 13:22:00 -0500 (1642875720) with options Array ( [expireType] => delete [id] => 77 ) no error

    And two others:

    2022-01-21 12:35:17	741 -> NO PAYLOAD ON SAVE_POST
2022-01-21 12:34:01	741 -> PROCESSED delete Array ( [expireType] => delete [category] => [categoryTaxonomy] => [enabled] => 1 )
2022-01-21 12:33:59	741 -> SCHEDULED at Fri, 21 Jan 2022 12:32:00 -0500 (1642786320) with options Array ( [expireType] => delete [id] => 741 ) no error
2022-01-21 09:45:33	21220 -> NO PAYLOAD ON SAVE_POST
2022-01-21 09:44:43	21215 -> PROCESSED delete Array ( [expireType] => delete [category] => [categoryTaxonomy] => [enabled] => 1 )
2022-01-21 09:44:42	21215 -> SCHEDULED at Fri, 21 Jan 2022 09:32:00 -0500 (1642775520) with options Array ( [expireType] => delete [id] => 21215 ) no error
    • This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Matt.
    Plugin Author andergmartins

    (@andergmartins)

    Thanks guys for the information.

    @syntax53 please, could you check the old post that is showing the expiration chckbox enabled, and let us know what are the metadata (only the ones prefixed with “_expiration-“) for that post?

    @jkorte The issue 1. is confirmed and should be fixed on the next release.
    2. That is possible. Please, could you check the metadata (“_expiration-…”) for one of those posts you see the issue?

    Thanks

    The two posts with the issue have “_expiration-date-status” == “saved” (and no other values).

    The one I checked that didn’t have the issue does not have any metadata with ‘expiration’ in the name.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Matt.
    • This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Matt.

    @andergmartins I don’t have permissions beyond the WP dashboard (content editing) and can’t retrieve the meta you requested. Sorry.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by jkorte.
    Plugin Author andergmartins

    (@andergmartins)

    Thanks guys for the feedback.
    Please, could you try the following RC package?

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/su3osd9b1pv4gx4/post-expirator-2.7.2-rc.2.zip?dl=0

    Thanks,

    Anderson

    Plugin Author Steve Burge

    (@stevejburge)

    Please update to version 2.7.2 which should fix this issue.

    If it doesn’t fix this, please start a new thread with these 3 details:

    1. Use a plugin like this to rollback to an earlier version: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-rollback/. What specific versions do work correctly?
    2. Disable other plugins one-by-one. Is there a plugin conflict here?
    3. Share a screenshot of both your “Defaults” and your “Post Type” settings.`

    Thanks. Will do. Is this the correct link/version?

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/su3osd9b1pv4gx4/post-expirator-2.7.2-rc.2.zip?dl=0

    Plugin Author Steve Burge

    (@stevejburge)

    The correct version is live here on www.ads-software.com.

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