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Bulk Adjust Expiration Dates for All Listings

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Snippet

Adjust line 6, replacing ‘2025-12-31’ with your desired expiration date.

Note: You may need to adjust line 7 to match the number of listings on your website. Otherwise, the code snippet will not check more than 100 listings.

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add_action( 'init', function() {
     if ( empty( $_GET['update_bulk_listing_expiry'] ) || ! current_user_can( 'administrator' ) ) {
        return false;
    }
     // Set your new listing expiry to a custom date
    $new_listing_expiry = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('2025-12-31'));
     $next_data = 100;
    $offset = 0;
     do {
         $listings = (array) get_posts([
            'post_type' => 'job_listing',
            'offset'   => $offset,
            'posts_per_page' => $next_data,
            'post_status' => ['publish', 'draft', 'expired', 'pending']
        ]);
         printf(
            "Fetching listing expiry data from listing %d to %d <br />",
            $offset + 1,
            $offset + $next_data
        );
         flush();
        ob_flush();
         foreach ( $listings as $listing ) {
            // Update new listing expire
            update_post_meta( $listing->ID, '_job_expires', $new_listing_expiry );
            $updated = wp_update_post( [ 'ID' => $listing->ID, 'post_status' => $listing->post_status ] );
        }
         $offset = ( ! $offset ) ? $next_data : $offset + $next_data;
     } while( ! empty( $listings ) );
     exit('All listings are updated, you may close this window');
} );