Empty trash full of entries

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Hello team. Is there a hook to automatically empty the trash after X days? The documentation says that the trahs isn’t emptied automatically, but maybe programatically?

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First, create a custom function that will empty the trash for Gravity Forms:

function empty_gf_trash_after_x_days($days = 30) {
    // Get all forms
    $forms = GFAPI::get_forms();

    // Get the current timestamp
    $now = time();

    // Loop through all forms
    foreach ($forms as $form) {
        // Get the form ID
        $form_id = $form['id'];

        // Get entries in the trash for this form
        $search_criteria = array(
            'status' => 'trash',
        );
        $entries = GFAPI::get_entries($form_id, $search_criteria);

        // Loop through the entries
        foreach ($entries as $entry) {
            // Check if the entry is older than the specified number of days
            $date_created = strtotime($entry['date_created']);
            $diff = ($now - $date_created) / (60 * 60 * 24); // Calculate the difference in days

            if ($diff > $days) {
                // Delete the entry permanently
                GFAPI::delete_entry($entry['id']);
            }
        }
    }
}

This function will loop through all forms, get the entries in the trash, and delete them permanently if they are older than the specified days.

Next, schedule a WordPress Cron Job that will execute the function daily:

function schedule_gf_trash_cleanup() {
    if (!wp_next_scheduled('gf_trash_cleanup_daily')) {
        wp_schedule_event(time(), 'daily', 'gf_trash_cleanup_daily');
    }
}

add_action('wp', 'schedule_gf_trash_cleanup');

function run_gf_trash_cleanup() {
    // Call the custom function with the desired number of days
    empty_gf_trash_after_x_days(30); // Change 30 to the desired number of days
}

add_action('gf_trash_cleanup_daily', 'run_gf_trash_cleanup');
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Thanks we have a similar function for archiving entries. I’d think that GF had a core function to schedule a deletion.