PHP & WordPress

Hi, i’m a beginner in PHP and WordPress and i would appreciate help on project i’m working on.

Currently i am using the below code to: query a specific post and then echo it’s expiration date (expiration date is set through a plugin) in a wordpress site:

<?php
$postid = 3823;
$date_format = __( ‘d / m / Y’ );
$expiration_date = get_post_meta( $postid, ‘_expiration_date’, true);
echo date_i18n( $date_format, strtotime( $expiration_date ) );
?>

This is working fine. What i would like it to do is:

– I will have 2 posts, 1 published and one scheduled
– Query both posts, check which is publiched and echo it’s expiration date

Thanks,
Charis