Comments on: The Atropos WordPress Plugin

By: Wordpress: 12 handy plugins | Andrea Cima Serniotti

Wordpress: 12 handy plugins | Andrea Cima Serniotti — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:11:18 +0000

[...] Atropos plugin lets you set an expiration date for your posts. This is done in a new Advanced Options section of the post edit page. Pick your month and put in the date and year and your post will automatically be deleted or moved to draft, depending on your settings, at the end of that day. I’ve used this plugin in Stock2Clear to set an expiration date on product offers. [...]

By: Mary Frank

Mary Frank — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:45:33 +0000

Its good that you come to know when your post expires but I would not like to delete it so I’ll move it to some other category, is that possible ?

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Wordpress Atropost Plugin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:26:08 +0000

[...] it’s homepage, the Atropos plugin lets you set an expiration date for your posts. This is done in a new Advanced [...]

By: John G

John G — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:47:59 +0000

I just brougt up 2.8.6 and the date expired only shows that the post only expires at the end of xxxxx (month).

What is the change I have to make to get it to list a day/month/year format if at all possible.

Thanks,

John

By: IAprogressive

IAprogressive — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:24:09 +0000

I changed the plugin a bit to fit our function, which someone else mentioned above. I think this will work now so that after a post expires, it will change it from one category to another.

In this case, I am changing the term_taxonomy_id to 4 only if the post has expired and it is currently 3. ‘upcoming guests’ to ‘previous guests’

$wpdb->query(“UPDATE {$wpdb->term_relationships} SET term_taxonomy_id = ‘4′ WHERE object_id = $a AND term_taxonomy_id = ‘3′”);

I’m waiting for it to run tonight to see if it works, any ideas how I could do this a little smoother?

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By: jrrl

jrrl — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:17:21 +0000

Sure. I’ll send to it you shortly. I’m sorry you’ve been having these problems. Perhaps in the future I should provide a function for setting or clearing an expiration date so it can be used programmatically without the headaches you’ve encountered.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:45:28 +0000

Any chance I could just get the old plugin file from you? I would like to just give it a shot for my purposes and see if it fixes the weird issues I seem to be having.

Thanks for your help thus far.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:51:23 +0000

With regard to my wp_cron running or not. I checked my raw access error log and I have a number of these entries:

69.65.3.168 – - [03/Oct/2009:23:18:04 -0500] “GET /wp-cron.php?check=5a4a88d738bd64fab3bcbbbeacfca6f4 HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “-”

Not sure what’s going on though?

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:42:52 +0000

I did a little more playing and here’s what I can verify so far:

using phpMyAdmin I can say that there were no _atropos_expiration_date entries anywhere. So I created a new post and instead of using custom fields to enter in the expiration date, I used the Expiration Date box to manually enter in the values and then checked the database again and it worked.

So the problem at this point appears to be, when setting it by custom field, nothing is happening or getting stored in wp_postmeta.