Expired ads management

1. Is it possible to NOT delete expired listings so I won’t get 404 errors from google/search traffic? I already tried to set “Delete expired Listings(in days)” as blank, but when I save it, turns into zero.

We will have an option for this in future. As an immediate solution,
– Open /includes/class-acadp-cron.php
– Find the following line and just remove it,
$this->delete_expired_listings();

2. Is it possible to exclude expired listings from showing up when using the search widget?

Sorry, expired listings doesn’t show up when you use our search widget. Kindly get me your site link in where I can see this issue. Also, make sure that you use our latest version.

Hello, thanks for the solution to #1, I’ll apply this as soon as possible. I look forward to having this as an option in the future. Thanks again!

As for #2, I noticed that expired listings will eventually not show up when using the search widget, and this will happen after the listing status becomes “privately published” (I think this is also done by a cron job). This will however cause the same 404 error because those privately published listings will not be accessible from the frontend.

I was hoping there’s a way to do a bulk exclude from search by adding all expired listings to an “expired” category, and then anything in the expired category is excluded in the search widget. I found the “Search Exclude” plugin that can exclude individual listings from the search widget where the listings can still be found and accessed from google search (perfect for SEO). But since I have to tick a checkbox in each listing individually, it’s virtually impossible to use if i have thousands of expired listings. Any ideas?

Thanks again for the great plugin!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by jayc.