Title: Automatic Post Expiration?
Last modified: April 25, 2017

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# Automatic Post Expiration?

 *  Resolved [sweettea2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sweettea2/)
 * (@sweettea2)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-post-expiration/)
 * Hello!
 * I was wondering if there’s a way to integrate the Post Expirator plugin ([https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-expirator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-expirator/))
   with your plugin so that when users post content on the frontend, it automatically
   sets their posts to expire. I’ve tried submitting posts through User Submitted
   Posts with Post Expirator enabled, but it doesn’t automatically set them to expire.
   If I create a post through the WP dashboard, it automatically is set to expire,
   but not ones submitted through the front end.
 * Thanks for your help!

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 *  [Ceri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cshibbs/)
 * (@cshibbs)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-post-expiration/#post-9066305)
 * I would also like to use this function 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-post-expiration/#post-9066529)
 * Hello,
 * USP uses default WP functionality for submitting posts, so Post Expirator must
   be doing something beyond that default functionality. Do you know if there is
   a particular hook are something that the plugin requires in order to operate 
   properly?
 *  Thread Starter [sweettea2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sweettea2/)
 * (@sweettea2)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-post-expiration/#post-9066889)
 * It says about Post Expirator that “The plugin hooks into the wp cron processes
   and runs every minute by default, but can be configured to use any cron schedule(
   hourly, twicedaily, daily, etc).”
 * It seems like there is some trouble with getting custom post types to work with
   the expirator plugin, so I wonder if that’s related to why they don’t auto-expire
   with User Submitted Posts?
 * This plugin ([https://wordpress.org/plugins/electric-studio-auto-expire-post/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/electric-studio-auto-expire-post/))
   does seem to work, but hasn’t been updated in 3 yrs. I wonder why it works and
   not the Post Expirator?
 * Thanks!
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-post-expiration/#post-9066903)
 * Yeah that makes sense, because USP doesn’t use any cron stuff. The CPT issue 
   may also factor in, but USP (free version) submits posts as regular WP Posts,
   so maybe not sure on that one. You may want to ask the Post Exp. author if they
   have any ideas.
 *  Thread Starter [sweettea2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sweettea2/)
 * (@sweettea2)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-post-expiration/#post-9069047)
 * Thanks for the assistance!
 *  [Ceri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cshibbs/)
 * (@cshibbs)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-post-expiration/#post-9069731)
 * Would it be possible to create a field on the front end in USP so a user could
   select when a post will expire?
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-post-expiration/#post-9071043)
 * [@sweettea2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sweettea2/) you are welcome!
 * [@cshibbs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cshibbs/) that’s currently not
   a feature of the plugin, but it’s on the to-do list.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-post-expiration/#post-9071043)
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