I think your problem may be in the use of $post->ID
. In your code $post
is an undefined variable. As you are inside a loop, try get_the_ID()
instead of $post->ID
:
$post_ID = get_the_ID();
$request_start_time = get_post_meta( $post_ID, '_simple_start_date', true );
if (date('Ymd') == date('Ymd', $request_start_time)){
$current_user = $post->post_author;
$request_date = get_post_meta( $post_ID, '_simple_start_date',true );
$request_year = date("Y",$request_date);
$time_year= date("Y");
$request_time = get_post_meta($post_ID, '_simple_total_hours', true);
$request_type = get_post_meta($post_ID, '_simple_vacation_type', true);
update_days_requested((-1 * $request_time), $request_type, $current_user);
update_days_left((-1 * $request_time), $request_type, $current_user);
update_days_used($request_time, $request_type, $current_user);
}