WordPress Post Expirator

First, let me just say Thank You for all the plugin love and support!  I use this plugin on a regular basis, and since it’s been functional, and working – I haven’t had a need to push out any updates.  This weekend, I figured I’d devout a little time to give it a little TLC!

Some of the key features in this version are:

• New: Quick Edit – setting expiration date and toggling post expiration status can now be done via quick edit.
• New: Bulk Edit – changing expiration date on posts that already are configured can now be done via bulk edit.
• New: Added ability to order by Expiration Date in dashboard.
• New: Adjusted formatting on defaults page. Multiple post types are now displayed cleaner.
• Fix: Minor Code Cleanup

For a complete list, please see the changelog.

There are a few other things I hope to tackle in the near future from the feature requests, so please hang tight!  If you have certain features you would like to see please add them to the Feature Requests Lists.

The plugin can be downloaded at the WordPress Plugins Page.  Enjoy!

Hello everyone!  I’m finally carving out a little time to show this plugin some love.  Hopefully in the next few days I’ll get a few tweaks deployed.

In the mean time, if you are seeing any issues – comment here and let me know!

I’m happy to announce that the 2.0.0 version of Post Expirator is now available!  This is a major update to most of the underlying code, and a slight logic shift in how things are done to be more flexible for additional options to be added down the road.  I spent extensive time testing all of the various aspects, and migrations path.  So, you should have no issues upgrading!

All posts that were scheduled using a 1.x version of the plugin will be migrated to use the new scheduling format and should expire as planned.

Some of the key features in this version are:

• New: Revamped the expiration process – the plugin no longer runs on an minute, hourly, or other schedule. Each expiration event schedules a unique event to run, conserving system resources and making things more efficient
• New: Added the ability to expire to a “private” post
• New: Added the ability to expire by adding or removing categories. The old way of doing things is now known as replacing categories
• New: The type of expiration event can be selected for each post, directly from the post editing screen
• New: Ability to set defaults for each post type (including custom posts)
• New: Renamed expiration-date meta value to _expiration-date
• New: Revamped timezone handling to be more correct with WordPress standards and fix conflicts with other plugins
• Fix: Removed kses filter calls when then schedule task runs that was causing code entered as unfiltered_html to be removed

For a complete list, please see the changelog.

The plugin can be downloaded at the WordPress Plugins Page.  Enjoy!

Update: Version 2.0.1 has been released to finish removing the old scheduled event.

Changes in this version include:

• Tweaked error messages, removed clicks for reset cron event
• Switched cron schedule functions to use “current_time(‘timestamp’)”
• Cleaned up default values code
• Added option to allow user to select any cron schedule (minute, hourly, twicedaily, daily) – including other defined schedules
• Added option to set default expiration duration – options are none, custom, or publish time
• Code cleanup – php notice

The plugin can be downloaded at the WordPress Plugins Page.  Enjoy!

I would like to announce the immediate release of version 1.6 of the Post Expirator plugin.  This version has some exciting fixes and additions.

Changes in this version include:

• Fixed invalid html
• Fixed i18n issues with dates
• Fixed problem when using “Network Activate” – reworked plugin activation process
• Replaced “Upgrade” tab with new “Diagnostics” tab
• Reworked expire logic to limit the number of sql queries needed
• Added debugging
• Various code cleanup

The plugin can be downloaded at the WordPress Plugins Page.  Enjoy!

This is a minor bugfix release. Some of the deprecated wordpress function calls have been cleaned up.

The plugin can be downloaded at the WordPress Plugins Page.

This is a minor bugfix release. There was an issue with the expiration sql query that was impacting some users.  Screenshots have also been added to the plugin page.

The plugin can be downloaded at the WordPress Plugins Page.

This is a minor bugfix release.  There was an issue with including the shortcode in the template that was displaying the expiration date in the incorrect time zone which has now been corrected.

The plugin can be downloaded at the WordPress Plugins Page.

A bug snuck into the 1.5 release that was causing custom post types to not show the expiration box. This has been corrected in 1.5.1. Sorry for the trouble!

The plugin can be downloaded at the WordPress Plugins Page.