Title: Hetjens Expiration Date
Author: S Hetjens
Published: <strong>November 5, 2009</strong>
Last modified: February 25, 2016

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Hetjens Expiration Date

 By [S Hetjens](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hetjens/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/hetjens-expiration-date.0.4.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hetjens-expiration-date/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hetjens-expiration-date/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hetjens-expiration-date/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hetjens-expiration-date/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hetjens-expiration-date/)

## Description

This plug-in adds a meta box to the post and page writing pages in wp-admin to set
up an expiration date for that item. It uses the WordPress cron feature to be executed
once a day.

After the expiration date the post will be in the trash can of WordPress. The plug-
in does not delete any post, but WordPress will depending on the trash can settings.

## Installation

 1. Upload the directory hetjens-expiration-date to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. You can use it

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Hetjens Expiration Date” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ S Hetjens ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hetjens/)

[Translate “Hetjens Expiration Date” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hetjens-expiration-date)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hetjens-expiration-date/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/hetjens-expiration-date/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hetjens-expiration-date/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hetjens-expiration-date/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.4

 * Fixed WordPress 2.9 issues

#### 0.3

 * First Plugin directory version

## Meta

 *  Version **0.4**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.9.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.9.2**
 * Tags
 * [expiration](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/expiration/)[pages](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pages/)
   [posts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)[remove](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/remove/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hetjens-expiration-date/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ S Hetjens ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hetjens/)

## Support

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