Simple Post Expiration

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1. ★★★★★ Liang

   4.8y ago

   It works as what the developer said.

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2. ★★★★★ sams007

   8.1y ago

   I recently downloaded the plugin and it works and displaying on the item Expired once it is expired. I hope if it has a function to hide the expired item as well.

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3. ★★★★★ itpcss

   9.5y ago

   there is no possibility to choose the time, except for the choice of the date is more than anything. Add if you can also select the time. If there was still a possibility except off positions, it would be even disable the widget, in general would have been super !!!

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4. ★★★★★ AL Guevara

   9.6y ago

   Very simple, and works!

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5. ★★★★★ caotu

   11.6y ago

   Thanks for the great plugin!

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6. ★★★★★ himanshu456

   11.9y ago

   I really found this plugin easy to use and nice. But would have given 5 STARS rating, if there would have a feature of time of a particular day to make a post expire. Like if i want to make a post expire at 5PM of 7 oct 2014. How is this possible?? Waiting for a reply.

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7. ★★★★★ Carolyn

   12.0y ago

   This plugin does exactly what it says it will do: Allows you to set an expiration date to posts and when that date passes, it will add the word “Expired” to the beginning of the post title. It also has a few shortcodes you can use to show expiration information within a post, and a sidebar widget that lets you display posts that are expiring soon. I haven’t used either of those yet.

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1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

1. Medium · 6.4 Simple Post Expiration <= 1.0.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-04-01 CVE-2025-31734 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.0.1 No patch available

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-06-10 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2026-06-09 400+ → 500+ up after 2 days in tier
3. 2026-06-07 500+ → 400+ down after 228 days in tier
4. 2025-10-22 600+ → 500+ down after 2 days in tier
5. 2025-10-20 500+ → 600+ up after 3 days in tier
6. 2025-10-17 600+ → 500+ down after 19 days in tier
7. 2025-09-28 500+ → 600+ up after 1 days in tier
8. 2025-09-27 600+ → 500+ down after 25 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• E Expire Sticky Posts 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D
• WP Post Expires 2K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
• GenerateBlocks 200K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag B
• Post Duplicator 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
• WP Popular Posts 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A
• YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag C

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Simple Post Expiration: 400+ active installs, 4.6★ (7 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-28. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/simple-post-expiration