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That works but it affects your performance as the action "check-update" runs on every request to your website. This triggers the query to the database. Running only on your settings page reduces the load. But that also means the value is updated only when users visit the settings page, so it's kind of manual reset.

Here it is:

function hello() {
    return '<b style="color:red;">Hello</b>';
}

I got it. In this case, the problem is handling the "saved meta value". I'd suggest using WP cron to perform a regular check on the meta value (posts). When a condition occurs (date is passed), then update the meta value.

This is the pseudo code:

register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'prefix_activation');

function prefix_activation() {
    if (! wp_next_scheduled ( 'prefix_daily_check' )) {
	wp_schedule_event(time(), 'hourly', 'prefix_daily_check');
    }
}

add_action('prefix_daily_check', 'prefix_update_posts_daily');
function prefix_update_posts_daily() {
    $now = time();
    $option = get_option( 'featured_position_1' );
    foreach ( $option as $key => $value ) {
        if ( $time > strtotime( $value['featured_item_1_schedule_start'] ) ) {
            unset( $option[$key] );
        }
    }
    update_option( 'featured_position_1', $option );
}

Hi,

If an user selects:

- Post A from Feb 6 to Feb 10
- Post B from Feb 8 to Feb 12

Then after Feb 6, the post A is removed from the selection (in the admin area)? Is that what you want?

Do you mean using it for the ajax request for select_advanced field as you talked in another topic?

Hi Jackky,

Thanks for the idea. It's a good idea. We haven't implemented that feature yet in the plugin. I'll try that 🙂

Hi,

Unfortunately, there's no ways to setup 4 columns at the moment. The settings extension uses the WordPress layouts, which supports only 1 and 2 columns.

Hi, continuing from the previous topic, we've just updated the plugin on Github with a new parameter max_file_size that limit the file size for file/image upload fields.

Please try it and let me know what you think.