Scheduling a Future Action Adds Custom Field pp_future_metadata_hash

Hi @clefurgy

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displayed among the metadata.

Can you please confirm where did you see it? Is it somewhere in the custom fields area in the post editor? Or else?

It generates the custom field when I update any post with a future expiration date selected. If I delete the custom field, it pops in again after updating the post. It’s then viewable in the metadata for the post.

@clefurgy You could safely ignore it. You dont have to worry about it being added there.

It displays in the published post, so I’m afraid that I won’t be able to ignore it.

@clefurgy Can you give me example published post where it shows the custom field? By default it should not be showing.

https://danburylibrary.org/feature/whm/

Sure thing. This is a custom post type, but it also occurs on regular posts.

@clefurgy Thanks for sharing example of the post. Can you inform me what theme you are using?

It’s a custom theme I stitched together over the Underscores starter theme with CSS from Materialize. I’m obviously not a professional, but I’ve been using Future/post-expirator for a long while now without issue and haven’t made any theme changes.

@clefurgy Could you please try this version?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EiFw7dws4JZ0f9ppuv6tyf4muobnV3QW/view?usp=sharing

The hash will will appear at least once, but then it should be moved to the new metadata which is?_pp_future_metadata_hash?instead of?pp_future_metadata_hash.

We expect the theme won’t display it, since there is a convention of considering metadata starting with?_?as a hidden or internal data

That works! Thank you so much for your help.

@clefurgy I’m glad to hear that ??

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