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Auto Post Expiration

by ViitorCloud Technologies Pvt Ltd · Uncategorized

Also makes 8 other plugins · 2.8K+ installs across the portfolio →

A simple plugin allows to set the posts expire date on desire date and time which set the posts to "draft" status.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
49 Health · D
Maintenance 20/100
Rating quality 67/100
Support 70/100

49 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

62 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 28/100
WP compatibility 77/100
Rating quality 53/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 834 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+52% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

122

now · peak 344

12530d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank

wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better

7.4KRank · Aug 26

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

156per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 95% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v3.0 95%
Older / other versions 4.9%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “800+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
800–900 ≈850

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,422 observations

800Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
3.0.0
Last updated
2.3y ago
Added
2021-02-22 · 5 yrs old
Requires WP
3.8
Tested up to
6.5.10
Requires PHP
7.4.0

Recent reviews

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  1. jeffmeadows
    1.9y ago

    Nice simple plugin. Does exactly what I want. Brilliant.

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  2. stephan1977m
    2.2y ago

    No bells and whistles – simple automatic unpublishing by date. Works.

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  3. matke1984
    2.2y ago

    Since version 3.0.0, the plugin no longer works. Please test your plugin before publishing it.

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  4. Mario Barretta
    2.3y ago

    Also if set date and hour it not work

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.5.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-07-23 900+ → 800+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2026-07-22 800+ → 900+ up after 124 days in tier
  3. 2026-03-20 900+ → 800+ down after 5 days in tier
  4. 2026-03-15 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2026-03-14 900+ → 800+ down after 191 days in tier
  6. 2025-09-04 800+ → 900+ up after 145 days in tier
  7. 2025-04-12 700+ → 800+ up after 66 days in tier
  8. 2025-02-05 600+ → 700+ up after 83 days in tier

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Auto Post Expiration: 800+ active installs, 3.0★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/auto-post-expiration