Expiring Posts in WordPress
There aren’t too many reasons you want to automatically expire or delete posts in your blog, but today I discovered one good reason why this is useful.
I use a lot of different affiliate programs, and a few of them send out emails announcing special pricing or other deals which are time-restricted. When I come across a deal that I think is worth publicizing, I like to blog it. But once the offer expires, it’s just noise in your blog’s archives, so being able to automatically expire that post either by deletion or at least removing it from display would save me administrative work.
There’s a plugin out there somewhere that claims to do this (try googling ‘wordpress expiring posts’ and you’ll surely find it), and this hack on the wordpress wiki: Expire WordPress Posts
