WillPac

Slickorange, thank you so much for posting this! I’m trying to do a similar thing, and I was wondering if you had any ideas of how to modify your code to get it to work for my case.

My posts are created through Gravity Forms, and thus have custom fields made by GF. I currently have a custom field titled ‘Date’ in the format of mm/dd/yyyy. I’m trying to set the expiration date based on this field. Any chance in the kindness of the heart you can try to help? Currently this code is not working at all–I’m new to developing in WordPress so I’m sure I’m missing something important here.

//My attempt at dynamically setting the expiration date of posts
//Here we go...let's see what we can make happen here
function set_expiration($post_id) {
	//Remove the default expiration date
	remove_action('save_post', 'expirationdate_update_post_meta');
	//Pull the date we need
	$date = get_post_meta( $post_id , 'Date', true );

	expirationdate_update_post_meta_gig($post_id, $date);
}

function expirationdate_update_post_meta_gig($id, $date) {
    // don't run the echo if this is an auto save

    if ( defined('DOING_AUTOSAVE') && DOING_AUTOSAVE ) {
        return;
    } else {
    //'m/d/Y' is the format my ACF date field is outputting - can be differ from each setup!
        $formatted_date = DateTime::createFromFormat('m/d/Y', $date);

        $month	 = intval($formatted_date->format('m'));
        $day 	 = intval($formatted_date->format('d'));
        $year 	 = intval($formatted_date->format('y'));

        //I am not using time in my ACF field, so I am setting it manually to the end of the day.
        $hour 	 = 23;
        $minute  = 59;

        $opts = array();
        $ts = get_gmt_from_date("$year-$month-$day $hour:$minute:0",'U');

        // Schedule/Update Expiration
        $opts['expireType'] = 'draft';
        $opts['id'] = $id;

        _scheduleExpiratorEvent($id,$ts,$opts);
	}
}

add_action('gform_after_submission_1', 'set_expiration', 1);
add_action('gform_after_submission_4', 'set_expiration', 1);
add_action('gform_after_submission_5', 'set_expiration', 1);