Scheduling removal of photos

  • Resolved woalmoore

    (@woalmoore)


    7 years, 8 months ago

    When we add a photo or edit an album, there is an option to Schedule photo to start showing at a certain date and time. I’m assuming that is part of the Post implementation on WP in general. Is there anyway within the plugin that you can re-assign a photo to either pending or remove it from an album at a certain time? We use an album to cycle through images related to upcoming events on our home page and would like to be able to “sunset” them after the event has finished without having to access the back end (we have someone that does that but only once a week or less).

    I’m not afraid of hooking into the code or re-writing a function…just need to know what would need to be done if this is even possible as written. I found a plugin called Post Expirator, but it doesn’t appear to work (at least out of the box) on pictures.

    Thanks again.

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  • Plugin Author Jacob N. Breetvelt

    (@opajaap)

    I’m assuming that is part of the Post implementation on WP in general

    No, its not, its entirely inside wppa. As soon as a visitor requests a page, a check is done if there are photos in the system that need their status changed from ‘scheduled’ to ‘publish’; this will be done and the registered schedule dtm will be removed from those photos.

    Because i welcome any idea that expands the functionality of wppa – as long as it can serve more than just one installation – i will be glad to add the functionality you asked for.

    To keep it simple, i suggest that i expand the list of possible statusses with ‘schedule for deletion’, using the same algorithm and db field as for the currently available ‘schedule for publication’ feature. This will imply that you will not be able to schedule for publication and for deletion at the same time for any photo, because a photo can have only one status and there will still be one field for the scheduled date/time.

    Pls tell me if this will suit your needs.

    Thread Starter woalmoore

    (@woalmoore)

    Thanks for your reply. While this wouldn’t be ideal (i.e. it would still involve changing the image once it’s published if we scheduled the publishing too), it would be an improvement in that we could schedule the publishing one weekend and then the deletion after the publish time. Being able to add both date/times would be the best but limitations exist (and, I would guess, it would require a much more in depth update to both the interface and database.)

    Thanks for taking the time to add this functionality at your earliest opportunity.

    Allen.

    Plugin Author Jacob N. Breetvelt

    (@opajaap)

    Glad i know you really want two schedule dates, one for publish and one for deletion.
    I will implement this, but it will take a little longer. (i.e. not released the next update, but 1 or 2 weeks later).

    Plugin Author Jacob N. Breetvelt

    (@opajaap)

    This feature is currently under test and will be released next week with version 6.6.22

    Plugin Author Jacob N. Breetvelt

    (@opajaap)

    Implemented 6.6.22

    Thread Starter woalmoore

    (@woalmoore)

    Thanks so much. Got the update. Looks great! (I haven’t utilized the features yet as it’s my wife that schedules them but I will pass it along to her…she will be thrilled!).

    Plugin Author Jacob N. Breetvelt

    (@opajaap)

    Make sure you are on 6.6.23 !!

    Thread Starter woalmoore

    (@woalmoore)

    Hi Jacob,
    We’re trying to use the scheduling feature and for some reason, when we schedule pictures to show up at a future date, they are showing up immediately. The feature was working in the past but now it is not. Any ideas if something was changed in a recent update that would have effected that?

    Thanks.
    Allen.

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