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How to Add an Expiration Date to Sticky Posts in WordPress

Last updated on February 19th, 2015 by Editorial Staff
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How to Add an Expiration Date to Sticky Posts in WordPress

Do you use Sticky posts in WordPress to highlight your featured posts on your blog? If so, then you probably know that each sticky post has to be manually turned off. Recently one of our users asked us for an easier way to automatically remove sticky from sticky posts. In this article, we will show you how to add an expiration date to sticky posts in WordPress.

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First thing you need to do is install and activate the Expire Sticky Posts plugin. Once activated, this plugin works out of the box and does not have any separate settings page.

Now if you want to add an expiration date to a sticky post, all you have to do is go the edit screen for any post or create a new post.

Under the Publish metabox, you will find a new setting labeled ‘Sticky Expires’. Clicking on the Edit link next to it will display a date field.

Sticky Post Expiration Setting

Simply select the date when you want the sticky post to become a normal post and press the update button.

That’s all, your sticky post will automatically expire on the given date, and it will be treated like any other regular post after that date.

We hope this article helped you add an expiration date to sticky posts in WordPress. You may also want to take a look at our tutorials on how to add sticky posts for categories and custom post type archives.

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  1. John says:
    Oct 25, 2019 at 4:10 am

    The plugin now is outdated for years.
    I couldn’t find a replacement.
    Does anyone know a plugin with for that feature?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Oct 25, 2019 at 10:00 am

      For the plugin being outdated, you may want to take a look at our article here:
      https://www.wpbeginner.com/opinion/should-you-install-plugins-not-tested-with-your-wordpress-version/

      Reply
  2. WPBeginner Staff says:
    Jan 17, 2015 at 2:07 am

    Unfortunately, the plugin only allows you to set an expiration date and not the time.

    Reply
  3. M.Imran Nazish says:
    Jan 16, 2015 at 1:13 pm

    i was searching this type of tool a while … now your this post help me alot
    thanks WBP

    Reply
  4. Travis Pflanz says:
    Jan 16, 2015 at 12:54 pm

    Nice post. I will definitely have to remember this one for the next multi-author/magazine site I build.

    Another tip, along the same lines, you can add the option to make a post sticky from the frontend, here – http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/58818/how-to-add-stick-this-post-to-the-front-page-to-front-end

    I find this useful for mulit-author websites, where authors can publish their own posts. This way the editor/admin can simply visit the site and decide to sticky a post from the post itself.

    Of course, this method works best when on the most recent or few most recent “sticky” posts are displayed.

    The sticky expiration is good if the theme is coded to display ALL sticky posts.

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  5. Jonco says:
    Jan 16, 2015 at 12:25 pm

    Can the Expire Sticky Posts plugin be set for a specific time on that date?

    Reply

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