Let’s say you have an import post with an marketing action that you want to be visible for a fixed amount of time. Unfortunately WordPress doesn’t offer a function to schedule a post to unpublish or be moved to trash. That is why I created this light-weight plugin to do it for you.

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Content Unpublisher WordPress Plugin
Content Unpublisher WordPress Plugin

Schedule posts to unpublish

Content Unpublisher is a light-weight plugin that lets you schedule a time and date for posts and pages to automatically convert to draft, or moved to trash.

Automatic post to trash

This let’s you schedule post changes of time-sensitive content such as promotions, events, announcements, or temporary landing pages.

Features:

  • Set a future unpublish date and action per post/page
  • Choose to trash or unpublish to draft
  • Admin overview table of all scheduled actions
  • AJAX-powered remove buttons (no reloads)
  • Lightweight and clean, no custom database tables

Screenshots Content Unpublisher

Admin overview table of scheduled actions
Admin overview table of scheduled actions
Easy to use sidebar to schedule your action
Easy to use sidebar to schedule your action
Change the status to ... - setting
Change the status to ... - setting