How to schedule an expiration date on multiple posts

Hi @plow0171

This is only possible using a loop for each post you want to expire.

Here is a snippet that look for specific user’s posts and schedule the expiration according to the arguments passed in the $opts array.

<?php

$timestamp = get_gmt_from_date('2022-11-01','U');
$opts = [
    'expireType' => 'draft',
    'enabled' => true,
];

$args = [
    'author' => $user_id,
    'orderby' => 'post_date',
    'order' => 'ASC',
    'posts_per_page' => -1 // no limit
];

$user_posts = get_posts($args);

foreach ($user_posts as $post) {
    postexpirator_schedule_event($post->ID, $timestamp, $opts);
}

Hello,

Thank you for the useful information.
The program you informed me about worked well.

Please also tell me how to remove the expiration date.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Where do you want to remove the expiration date from? Please be more specific. If there is any screenshot, that would be helpful.

Hello,

I want to programmatically delete all posts that match the author’s id.
I tried the following code described on the homepage, but only one was deleted.

if (function_exists(‘postExpirator_init’)) {
$postId = 258;
_unscheduleExpiratorEvent($postId);
}

Regards,

If we got it right, the logic will be the same. Just need to change the function from “schedule” to “unschedule”:

<?php

if (function_exists('postexpirator_unschedule_event')) {
    $args = [
        'author' => $user_id,
        'orderby' => 'post_date',
        'order' => 'ASC',
        'posts_per_page' => -1 // no limit
    ];

    $user_posts = get_posts($args);

    foreach ($user_posts as $post) {
        postexpirator_unschedule_event($post->ID);
    }
}

That will not delete the post itself, but will remove all the expiration settings for those posts, clean up the expiration data

Hello,

Thank you for contacting us.
The program you gave me worked fine.

It was very helpful because I am not familiar with the program.
I appreciate your help.