Thread: Will imported listings never expire?

Will imported listings never expire?

There's been some conversation around how Vantage should allow standard listings for free, with an unlimited duration, and upgraded listings for a fee, ideally with a recurring subscription model. With this in place, it would be possible to import thousands of listings to start a directory off.

I've been doing some investigation, and it appears that the following happens in Vantage:

1. If a user manually submits a listing, then the listing_duration is set to the appropriate value in the database
2. If a listing is imported, then no listing_duration value is set at all!

You can see this yourself if you dig into the database and look for the "listing_duration" meta_key in the wp_postmeta table. From what I can tell, it's only being set for listings that are manually added.

If this is true, the implication is the following:

1. Imported listings will never expire
2. When users log in and look at their dashboard for an imported listing (e.g. when users can "claim" a listing), the expiry date will show as 30 days from the post date, even though the listing will never actually expire (because the code defaults to the post date + 30 days)

This isn't all necessarily a bad thing. It's actually good for me if imported posts never expire. However, I'm not sure that was intended, since listing_duration is set for non-imported listings.

Ideally, though, we would have the following functionality:

1. Allow for multiple price levels/packages and different expiry dates for each price level
2. Allow the the option of making some price levels (including free) have no expiry date

Could someone from AppThemes please confirm whether imported listings, which appear to have no listing_duration set, have no expiry date? If not, then we need a way to extend the expiry date for imported listings, ideally without having to generate a listing_duration entry in the database for every single listing we import.

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