[Plugin: Post Expirator] Cron runs every 60 seconds!

Aaron,

Haven’t had time to follow this in detail, but it sounds like a nice piece of work! Thanks for following through on this, I’m sure many users (and hosts!) will enjoy the results!

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What means Default Date/Time Duration = Post/Page Publish Time?
Does it mean the post will be expired just after it’s published?
In this case what the sense of the setting?
If it so – for me it’s useful the only with additional parameter Relative post expiration time, say default: 30 days from published.

@sergeytru This is not a new feature – it does set the expiration date/time to be the same as the post time. What your describing is not currently part of the plugin

@brainoz thanks – it was due for an overhaul!

Aaron,

Any posts that are scheduled to expire in the future will have an event schedule for them at upgrade time.

– this situation may be anytime when server is too busy, or scheduled event in server maintenance time. It will be useful to check expired posts to enforce their expiration..

There is really no clean way to do that. If the past posts are not expirated correctly, I think they will need to be manually taken care of. There is no way to know how an old post was suppose to be expirated – whether to delete or draft – and we can’t make the assumption to use what the default is currently configured as.

Aaron, I know the Post/Page Publish Time is old, but just can’t understand how it’s useful. I’m newbie with your plugin – just installed it, it does not work for me, and I’m looking for same issue on the forum.

Hi Aaron,

I downloaded and installed the plugin, but it’s still not working for me.

Any news on an update?

@ericekidwell what version of the plugin are you running? What does the debug log tell you? Can you define “not working” in more detail?

Aaron,

Great plugin! When new posts are published, I am having to manually Update the post for the expiration date to activate. All my settings appear correctly set. Am I missing something? I thought it was supposed to happen automatically. Any guidance would be much appreciated.

In addition, upon manual Update, the expiration date appears to be triggered by the_modified_time() as opposed to the_time(). I think I may have a bug in my system, but I thought I would reach out to you before I dig too deep.

Thanks again for the great plugin.