Unpublish expired articles

[cxn]

Hi All,

First of all I love Joomla! 3.3. Great Job.

I'm encountering one problem.
When an article is expired (reaches the "Finish Publishing" date) it hides these articles for all users in "Featured Articles", except for "Super Users".

I know this is default on how Joomla! works (http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p=2250654), but I want these articles to be hidden for all access levels.

Also "AutoArchive" (http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions ... utoarchive) is not for me, I don't want to move between categories.

Is there any solution? (rather than updating it through phpmyadmin to unpublished)

Thanks

[cxn]

Anyone knows how to hide "expired articles" for Super User in the featured articles menu?

I only found this in featured/default_item.php:

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<?php if ((strtotime($this->item->publish_down) < strtotime(JFactory::getDate())) && $this->item->publish_down != '0000-00-00 00:00:00') : ?>
	<span class="label label-warning"><?php echo JText::_('JEXPIRED'); ?></span>
<?php endif; ?>

But thats only the warning.

Thanks

[cxn]

Anyone?

[Tuscany]

need this aswell !
Please someone !

[NathanHawks]

Here is a general guide. You need to override the template. You'll be modifying PHP logic. For example in the template com_content/category/default_articles.php on line 108 is the loop going through the stories. Inside that loop, on line ...

...hang on, am I looking at tables code? There are still HTML tables in the freaking blog layout code in twentyfif--

...anyway, on line 144 we see a test for an expired story.

By copying and reusing that test, we could skip entries in the loop. So if you inserted at the end of line 108:

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<?php if ((strtotime($article->publish_down) < strtotime(JFactory::getDate())) && $article->publish_down != '0000-00-00 00:00:00') { continue; } ?>

...you can conditionally "continue" upon that test, which would skip the entire rendering process for that story, continuing the loop at the next story.

That would cover you for a category blog... for any component or any view of a component, you now know what to look for.

Creating overrides