Title: [Plugin: Post Expirator] Custom Fields
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Post Expirator] Custom Fields

 *  Resolved [John Basham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/permarad/)
 * (@permarad)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-post-expirator-custom-fields/)
 * Just attempting to use a custom field to add the date of expiration as I am using
   a form on the front-end to create custom posts. But there are a few issues.
 * 1. the plugin database entry creates a strange date in the database for the meta,
   something like ‘1334943600’ , rather than 2012/04/20.
 * 2. the plugin also creates the extra meta fields
    -expiration-date-category -
   expiration-date-processed
 * so are those two extra meta fields needed? and secondly whats with the date?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-expirator/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-expirator/)

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 *  Thread Starter [John Basham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/permarad/)
 * (@permarad)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-post-expirator-custom-fields/#post-2969118)
 * I realised that the strange date was actually the Unix Timestamp. No idea how
   to deal with that so I opted to use another plugin, ‘Content Scheduler’, its 
   database entry was easy to work with ’00/00/0000 00:00′.
 *  [qzha017](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qzha017/)
 * (@qzha017)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-post-expirator-custom-fields/#post-2969236)
 * Hi Permarad, I am too using a form (gravity forms) on front end to create posts,
   can you please help me with Content Scheduler? I installed and selected all the
   relevant fields but when I check all post from admin it all says (Expiration 
   Disabled)?
 * can you please help me to get it to work, post expirator dosent work for me as
   well
 *  [hughes1974](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hughes1974/)
 * (@hughes1974)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-post-expirator-custom-fields/#post-2969265)
 * Did you get this to work? Any hep would be great.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-post-expirator-custom-fields/#post-2969266)
 * As per the [Forum Welcome](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post),
   please [post your own topic](http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-expirator#postform).

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## Tags

 * [custom field](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-field/)
 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [front-end](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/front-end/)

 * 4 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-post-expirator-custom-fields/#post-2969266)
 * Status: resolved