[Plugin: Content Scheduler] Automatic scheduling not working

Auto Prune Posts is not my first choice because i am not able to manage my custom post types with it.

Handoko Zhang weisst du zuf?llig wie man bei bei dem Post Expirator über ein custom field das plugin in einem post einschaltet (enabled)?

Post Expirator doesn’t work either ?? Tested with 3 different WP 3.4.2 instances ??

Hi kryvulena. Post Expirator is working correctly on my website. Can you please tell me what feature you want that is not working?

Handoko Zhang, do you maybe know a a way how to enable post expirator in a post via a custom field?

Hi alesandro85. Can you explain more detail, what and why you need to enable it via a custom field?

Thanks for the quick reply Zhang.

When my users create a post by themselves via Gravity Forms I want to give them post an expiration date. In my case I set the Post Expirator not to a certain date but to a certain duration after publishing the post (which goes automatically). So, the duration is set right – good with that – but theres no way for me to enable the Post Expirator in a new created post automatically.

So if I would have a custom field to enable the Post Expirator in my form everything would work great. For example the Content Scheduler have a custom field called “_cs-enable-schedule” which I can predefine as “enabled” so for a new post (custom post type) it’s automatically enabled.

For the Content Scheduler (which I would prefer because of the notification ability) it’s pretty much the same problem:

Here I can enable the Content Scheduler in the post via the custom field (see above). but can not set a duration from creating the post – only a date. if I give the custom field _cs-expire-date the value “+ 365 day” the result is the value “INVALID” in the database.

You got my dilemma ?? ?

@handoko Zhang

Hi there, I explained everything in this thread:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-content-scheduler-does-not-work-issues?replies=1

I do not use Gravity Forms, I cannot comment anything about it.

On Post Expirator setting page, you can set Default Date/Time Duration: to Custom, and put +365 days.

But unfortunately, Post Expirator won’t automatically enable it. Luckily, with some work, I manage to make it enable automatically to expire when any new posts/pages being saved.

In my case, I’m building a site that members can post simple advertisements that will automatically expire after 7 days. Using my trick, it works as what I want. The next I need to do is to hide the expiration field to show on editing page/post so user can’t change the value.

I explained the trick on this link:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-post-expirator-always-on-and-default-datetime-duration-for-7-days?replies=7

I tried your trick but haven’t had the same success like you. Posts are not automatically enabled then.

Thank you for your quick reply!

alesandro85:
I had the same issue, and didn’t find any other solution then “auto delete”…

with “auto delete” u can set that ALL posts go to certain category after X days… “eXpired” for example then instead of removing them totally, you can try “simply exclude” plugin and exclude this category to show up anywhere on the page…

not sure if “auto delete” works with custom post types… but u can try to contact the developer… this developer is answering every few months..