Plugin seemingly stuck on auto-enable
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Whenever I click “Update” on a page or post, it activates the post expirator which marks the page or post as draft immediately. This expirator will be previously inactive for that page or post, and all I need to do is click “Update” regardless of if I’ve changed any settings with the post expirator.
And yes I’ve checked in the settings, and the plugin is set to “Active” on that post type, but not set to auto-enable.
This has become a big problem as when anyone with access changes a simple thing on a page (unrelated to the expiration status of the page), such as the body content, then the posts or page will unpublish immediately.
This has been a problem for me for a month or so, and is happening on multiple websites I manage.
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Same issue since upgrading to Version 2.7. All previous pages and posts are set to auto expire at current time if updated.
Expiration date needs to activated for all new pages and posts.
Using block editor.
NOTE: Post Expiration only shows it has been activated in the editor when the PublishPress Feature tab is opened.
The lists of all previous pages and posts do not indicate a Expiration date has been set.
When I click on the quick edit button for the previous posts and pages, it does not indicate Enable Post Expiration has been turned on.Uninstalling and re-installing the plugin does not help. The same problem still persists after the re-installation as it still remembers what pages was set to be expired. Anything specific we can remove after the uninstall to make it a “fresh” install.
Or if you in the mean time could add in a feature to reset the plugins settings/history etc so it can become like a fresh install ?Nm, found it under advanced…
“Preserve data after deactivating the plugin”
“Toggle between preserving or deleting data after the plugin is deactivated.”However the function is broken, when set to “delete data after the plugin is disabled” and pressing save it reverts to “preserving data”. We can not get the plugin delete the data, Would like to have this feature fixed so we can check if that solves the problem.
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Found a workaround for this problem:
In the settings for the plugin under the Advanced tab
The function:
Block Editor Support
“Show Gutenberg style box” or “Show Classic Editor style box”
Toggle between native support for the Block Editor or the backward compatible Classic Editor style metabox.In our install it was set to “Show Gutenberg style box”
When altering this to “Show Classic Editor style box” we have no more problems that the plugin automatically wants to become active when editing an old post, no matter if we use Block edit or Classic edit.So the problem seemes to be located in the “Block editor support” and the “Show Gutenberg style box”
Regards,
TechDeptechdep’s workaround is not working for us, unless I’m missing something.
I went to the plugin settings, Advanced tab, selected the Show Classic Editor style option, hit Save. I also purged/emptied WP Rocket caches, just to be safe.
Now when I enter edit more for an existing page, the Enable Post Expirator box still is checked. Oddly, the date that it fills in is several months ago; I don’t know where that date is coming from, but it seems to be consistent across pages.
One other thing that may be helpful: if I edit an existing page and uncheck the “Enable Post Expiration” box then save the item, then edit the same item again, the “Enable Post Expiration” box for that item is *not* automatically checked.
For now, we will need to disable the plugin. That’s terrible because it’s a great help! But we can’t take the chance of overlooking the auto-expire on a page and having a “Page Not Found” on an important page, which caught us once already. I hope this one is fixed soon, or we have a workaround. Thanks in advance for any help.
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