Delete based on multiple values for custom fields

[Buffalo OnlineParticipant]

Can the plugin be used to delete multiple posts based on different values of the custom fields?

i.e we have a custom field called ‘package_days_amount’ and if the value is 7 we want it to delete after 7 days, and if the value is 14 we want it to delete the posts after 14 days.

If the plugin requires modification you have any pointers to achieve the above?

Note we have also purchased the scheduler for this 🙂

[SudarKeymaster]

Hello,

Yeah that’s possible.

You just have to create two separate jobs one for each value.

In the first job select the custom field key and value as 7. Also choose the date based on that.

Similarly in the second job choose 14 as the value and also for the days.

Let me know if you still have any more questions regarding this.

[Buffalo OnlineParticipant]

Hi Sudar,

That did work by the way I was wondering if you could help with some of the complicated php stuff???

I have custom post type called ‘package’
These have a foreach loop setup with the following:
$transaction_package_id = $key->package_id;

and inside that we have a custom field called: ‘package_days_amount’ ‘$package_days_amount’

What we are trying to do is pull the value of the above, and put them into another custom post type called ‘events’
into some other custom fields called:
‘package_days_amount’ ‘$package_days_amount’

This is the complicated stuff that i’m struggling with but you might find easy :/ ???

[Buffalo OnlineParticipant]

This is what I’ve tried inside the foreach loop:

$package_days_amount_event = get_post_meta($td_slot_id, ‘package_days_amount’, true);

if ( $package_days_amount == ‘1’ ) {
update_post_meta( $post_id, ‘package_days_amount_event’, ‘1’ );
}
if ( $package_days_amount == ‘7’ ) {
update_post_meta( $post_id, ‘package_days_amount_event’, ‘7’ );
}
if ( $package_days_amount == ’14’ ) {
update_post_meta( $post_id, ‘package_days_amount_event’, ’14’ );
}
if ( $package_days_amount == ’30’ ) {
update_post_meta( $post_id, ‘package_days_amount_event’, ’30’ );
}
if ( $package_days_amount == ‘forever’ ) {
update_post_meta( $post_id, ‘package_days_amount_event’, ‘forever’ );
}
else {
//do nothing
}

[Buffalo OnlineParticipant]

Note my code above didn’t work

[SudarKeymaster]

What is the error you are getting?

Also can you post the full code in gist and then post the link here?

[Buffalo OnlineParticipant]

Hi here’s the link to the code

https://github.com/colingell/bulkdelete

It has two files: eventuploadform.php – this is the one where I don’t seem to be able to pull the $package_days_amount field from the ‘package’ post type, and save it as ‘$package_days_amount_event’

The second file is the one that generates the $package_days_amount field it also allows me to manually update the $package_days_amount_event field from the backend of wordpress, and in this regard it works perfectly.

I don’t have any error records showing for either of the above files, it’s just that eventuploadform.php doesn’t seem to update the sql database with the $package_days_amount_event field

[SudarKeymaster]

Sorry, I am not able to figure out why it is not working. I would need access to your server, DB etc to debug it further since I don’t see any obvious issues.

You may have to hire someone to fix it for you.

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