http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Wed, 22 May 2013 12:15:08 +0000 http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/set-expiration-datetime-for-posts#post-14928 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:46:42 +0000 candregg 14928@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I am trying to adjust the category loop in a Thematic child theme to set an expiration date for -time-sensitive posts.</p> <p>Here's the function I cobbled together so far:</p> <p><code><br /> // Set post Expiration Time ( for appearances) </p> <p>function remove_categoryloop() {<br /> remove_action('thematic_categoryloop', 'thematic_category_loop');<br /> }<br /> add_action('init', 'remove_categoryloop');</p> <p>function my_categoryloop() {<br /> while (have_posts()) : the_post();<br /> $expirationtime = get_post_custom_values('expiration');<br /> if (is_array($expirationtime)) {<br /> $expirestring = implode($expirationtime);<br /> }</p> <p> $secondsbetween = strtotime($expirestring)-time();<br /> if ( $secondsbetween &gt; 0 ) {<br /> // For exemple...<br /> the_title();<br /> the_excerpt();<br /> }</p> <p> ?&gt;&lt;div id="post-&lt;?php the_ID(); ?&gt;" class="&lt;?php thematic_post_class(); ?&gt;"&gt;<br /> &lt;?php thematic_postheader(); ?&gt;<br /> &lt;div class="entry-content"&gt;<br /> &lt;?php thematic_content(); ?&gt;</p> <p>&lt;/div&gt;<br /> &lt;?php thematic_postfooter(); ?&gt;<br /> &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- .post --&gt;</p> <p> &lt;?php endwhile;<br /> }<br /> add_action('thematic_categoryloop', 'my_categoryloop');</p> <p></code><br /> I added a custom filed called 'expiration' to the post, and gave it an expire date/time of '08/19/2010 20:00:00'. </p> <p>So far, it's not working, but at least it hasn't broken anything yet. My php is lame, at best, so any help would be appreciated. </p>