Title: Time Limited Posts
Last modified: November 20, 2021

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# Time Limited Posts

 *  [adrian33000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adrian33000/)
 * (@adrian33000)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/time-limited-posts/)
 * Many posts posted to WP websites have a limited lifespan. For example on an eCommerce
   site posts may well relate to a special offer or deal only available for a specific
   time period or up to a certain date. An example would be Black Friday Deals.
 * At the moment it is necessary to remember these and then go back to them to remove
   them when they become out of date or visitors are likely to view posts that are
   no longer valid.
 * I wonder if it would not be possible to provide a facility on posts where they
   could expire after a certain date and automatically be moved to Trash or Drafts
   so they no longer appear live on the site. Moving to a draft would be useful 
   where the post could be reused if it was a recurring item and could then just
   be updated avoiding the need to rewrite the post repeatedly.
 * This is an option provided when banner ads are posted, for example, where you
   set an expiry date and the ad disappears from that date.
 * As it is clearly possible to do this with ads I would not imagine it would be
   difficult to include a similar facility with posts as the option to delete or
   change a post to draft already exists in a manual form.
 * Just an idea anyway.
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/).
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress
      topic

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/time-limited-posts/#post-15086370)
 * There are plugins for that. [https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/expire+posts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/expire+posts)
 *  Thread Starter [adrian33000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adrian33000/)
 * (@adrian33000)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/time-limited-posts/#post-15086695)
 * Hi
 * Thanks for the heads-up on this plugin. Just what I was looking for but as someone
   else has mentioned in the comments including this in core might be a better option.
 * Another plugin needed to be included can have a detrimental effect on site performance.
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/time-limited-posts/#post-15086703)
 * OK, that’s just heard-on-the-street folderol…. code is code, whether it’s in 
   core or in a plugin. The key is whether some very large percentage of users would
   need the feature. If not, then it belongs in a plugin.

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