Title: Codex Lessons
Last modified: December 19, 2019

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# Codex Lessons

 *  [dsaull](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsaull/)
 * (@dsaull)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codex-lessons/)
 * I would like to see more specific instruction for each topic..ie Excerpts…how
   exactly do you set up automatic excerpts? How do you set them up manually? Step
   by step for non coders is needed…another one is archiving…my posts have been 
   up since October when I created them…there is no instruction in the Codex for
   this…do they get automatically archived or do I have to do it manually? How is
   it done?
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/).

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codex-lessons/#post-12252829)
 * There is no such thing as “archiving”. Posts are posts and they just scroll into
   oblivion.
 *  Thread Starter [dsaull](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsaull/)
 * (@dsaull)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codex-lessons/#post-12287825)
 * What do you mean by “oblivion”? Copies of my posts will never go away on their
   own? I can envision years of posts attached to my blog…doesn’t seem efficient…
   my October posts have been copied to “Archives”…
 * At some point I want to delete old posts…like a month’s worth after they’ve been
   archived…and just keep the current ones…that’s why I have categories…
 * What are my options?
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codex-lessons/#post-12287909)
 * There are some plugins [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/archives/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/archives/)

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 * [archiving](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/archiving/)
 * [excerpts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/excerpts/)
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 * Last reply from: [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codex-lessons/#post-12287909)
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