Expirely Documentation

Overview

Schedule posts, pages and products to be unpublished, made private, trashed or moved to another category at a date and time.

• Offers end on time
• Past events hidden
• Products too

Best for: Shops, events and seasonal content

Installation

1. Download expirely-content-expiration.zip from My account › My plugins or from your order email. Do not unzip it.
2. In WordPress, go to Plugins › Add New Plugin › Upload Plugin, choose the zip and click Install Now, then Activate.

Requires WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+. Works with any theme, block themes and page builders.

Features

• An Expires box on posts, pages and products
• Switch to draft, make private, trash or move to a category
• Runs on time, with an hourly safety check
• Expires column in the lists
• Uses your site time zone
• Optional email when content expires
• Choose the content types

Shortcodes

Paste a shortcode in any page, post, widget or page builder text block.

• [expirely_preview]

Options of each shortcode are described in the Features above and in the plugin settings page.

For developers

Customize the plugin from your theme’s functions.php or a small plugin, without editing its files (your changes survive updates).

Filters

• expirely_active
• expirely_sanitize

add_filter( 'expirely_active', function ( $value ) {
	// Change $value here.
	return $value;
}, 10, 1 );

Actions

• expirely_admin_after_form
• expirely_admin_before_form
• expirely_admin_form_end
• expirely_expired

Updates

Updates are free. When a new version is out, it appears in Dashboard › Updates of your WordPress site and you can install it in one click, or turn on automatic updates in Plugins. This works for the zip downloaded from your Woo-Plugins account; older copies can be replaced by downloading the latest version from My plugins. See the changelog.

Frequently asked questions