WP Ultimo type sandbox?

[urbancollective]

Hi all!

Can anyone point me on the right track to create a similar user experience as the WP Ultimo sandbox enviroment? I need to create a similar experience on creating a sandbox for clients to test the website. Add an email, create sandbox with random subdomain, delete it after 2 hours. Something I can install on my own server.

Thank you in advance!

[superdav42]

Would it just be a special free product that is a sandbox and when customers checkout with it they get a site they can play with then a cron job deletes the site? It would be pretty easy to write some code to do this. Tell me more of the requirements.

[urbancollective]

Hi, thank you for the reply.

Yes, a special sandbox free product that would be deleted after 2 hours.
Nothing fancy. No ability to upload/install plugins. Just play around, activate plugins, change themes, edit the website.

Thank you again for the reply, totally forgot about posting here too :)).

[superdav42]

This snippet should do it:

/**
   * Delete demo sites and memberships after 2 hours.
   *
   * This function should be hooked to a scheduled cron event.
   * Run it via: wp cron event run wu_delete_expired_demo_sites
   */
  function wu_delete_expired_demo_sites() {

        // Get the demo product ID (replace with your actual demo product ID)
        $demo_product_id = 123; // TODO: Set this to your demo product ID

        // Calculate the expiration time (2 hours ago)
        $expiration_time = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('-2 hours'));

        // Get all memberships with the demo product
        $memberships = wu_get_memberships(array(
                'product_id' => $demo_product_id,
                'number'     => -1,
        ));

        if (empty($memberships)) {
                return;
        }

        foreach ($memberships as $membership) {

                // Check if membership is older than 2 hours
                $created_date = $membership->get_date_created();

                if ($created_date > $expiration_time) {
                        continue; // Skip if not expired yet
                }

                // Get associated site
                $site_id = $membership->get_site_id();

                if (!$site_id) {
                        continue;
                }

                // Delete the site
                $site = wu_get_site($site_id);

                if ($site) {

                        // Delete the actual WordPress site
                        wpmu_delete_blog($site->get_blog_id(), true);

                        // Delete the wu_site record
                        $site->delete();

                        wu_log_add('demo-cleanup', sprintf(
                                'Deleted demo site #%d (blog_id: %d) for membership #%d',
                                $site_id,
                                $site->get_blog_id(),
                                $membership->get_id()
                        ));
                }

                // Delete the membership
                $membership->delete();

                wu_log_add('demo-cleanup', sprintf(
                        'Deleted demo membership #%d',
                        $membership->get_id()
                ));
        }

  }

  /**
   * Schedule the cron event if it doesn't exist.
   */
  function wu_schedule_demo_cleanup() {

        if (!wp_next_scheduled('wu_delete_expired_demo_sites')) {
                wp_schedule_event(time(), 'hourly', 'wu_delete_expired_demo_sites');
        }

  }
  add_action('wp', 'wu_schedule_demo_cleanup');

  // Hook the cleanup function to the cron event
  add_action('wu_delete_expired_demo_sites', 'wu_delete_expired_demo_sites');

drop it in a mu-plugin.
Maybe I'll add a special product type for this if there's enough demand.

[wvpalarao91]

Hello. Hope this will be added as part of the main plugin rather than snippets

[urbancollective]

Hi, I have tried the snippet provided, but it did not work.

Still, I have fed the code to Claude and created a plugin.
It works now. It also has a Settings screen, to set the Product ID, a Manual Cleanup, Sites pending deletions and Recently deleted sites:

Maybe we can build on it, I can only talk with Claude, but maybe it's not necesarily the best way to do it.

delete-demo-site.zip

[urbancollective]

Hi guys, I did un update to the plugin. Mostly UI/UX, but also some new features, like options to also delete the new user related to the demo site.

I hope it will be useful to those that need this feature.

Thanks again to superdav42 for the initial code, I could not have started this with Claude without it's code.

multisite-ultimate-demo-cleanup.zip

[urbancollective]

Thank you!

I'll do this and come back with a reply.

Have a great day forward!

[urbancollective]

+1 from me on this to be added in main plugin.

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