Set user expiration to a fixed date

The PayPal Subscription Extension operates by setting a user’s expiration date to today + the subscription period. For example, if the subscription period is 1 year, the expiration date will be one year from now.

But what if you want all users to expire/renew on the same day of the year? Or if you would like to just set a hard date far out in the future? Yes, there is a way you can do such things.

There is an action hook that comes just after the user’s expiration date is automatically set – wpmem_exp_after_set_exp. Using this action, you can create a custom function to change the expiration date that is automatically set by the extension to whatever you want. Here are three simple examples.

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This topic has 3 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 6 years, 5 months ago by Chad Butler.

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- November 3, 2014 at 1:31 pm #6320
  
  Chad Butler
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  The PayPal Subscription Extension operates by setting a user’s expiration date to today + the subscription period. For example, if the subscription pe
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- November 5, 2014 at 3:34 am #6352
  
  shnhealy
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  A really useful post. Will take note of this in case we need to set expiry dates.
- November 14, 2014 at 1:51 pm #6421
  
  transmitstudio
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  Thanks, Chad. This is helpful.
  
  My client asked me to push all member expiry dates to 6/30/15. I wasn’t sure how to use your code to do that – I put the code in functions.php but didn’t know how to execute it – so I ended up using phpMyAdmin instead. This query worked:
  
  UPDATE wp_usermeta SET meta_value = REPLACE (meta_value,'12/31/2014','06/30/15');
  - November 14, 2014 at 2:35 pm #6422
    
    Chad Butler
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    The code as described here would only effect users as they subscribe or renew, so you did it right to globally change everyone – using a MySQL query.
    
    I think what you have may be OK, but you might want to run an update on your update to make the year 2015 instead of 15.
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