Suggested Feature: Time limit posts

I’ve made a small change to your code to allow “fresh” posts only to be displayed using the short code e.g.

[display-posts id=26697 expire=2014-10-01]

I enclose the patch for your consideration:

diff U3 F:/Documents/hockey/WP/diaplay-posts-shortcode/display-posts-shortcode.vanilla v2.4/display-posts-shortcode.php F:/Documents/hockey/WP/diaplay-posts-shortcode/display-posts-shortcode v2.4/display-posts-shortcode.php
--- F:/Documents/hockey/WP/diaplay-posts-shortcode/display-posts-shortcode.vanilla v2.4/display-posts-shortcode.php	Wed May 07 15:34:54 2014
+++ F:/Documents/hockey/WP/diaplay-posts-shortcode/display-posts-shortcode v2.4/display-posts-shortcode.php	Fri Jul 18 23:17:10 2014
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
 		'wrapper'             => 'ul',
 		'wrapper_class'       => 'display-posts-listing',
 		'wrapper_id'          => false,
+        'expire'              => ''
 	), $atts, 'display-posts' );

 	// End early if shortcode should be turned off
@@ -120,7 +121,7 @@
 	$wrapper_id = sanitize_html_class( $atts['wrapper_id'] );
 	if( !empty( $wrapper_id ) )
 		$wrapper_id = ' id="' . $wrapper_id . '"';
-
+    $expire = sanitize_text_field( $atts['expire'] );

 	// Set up initial query for post
 	$args = array(
@@ -248,7 +249,7 @@

 	$listing = new WP_Query( apply_filters( 'display_posts_shortcode_args', $args, $original_atts ) );
-	if ( ! $listing->have_posts() )
+	if ( ! $listing->have_posts() || (($expire !== '') && (strtotime($expire) < strtotime(date("Y-m-d")))) )
 		return apply_filters( 'display_posts_shortcode_no_results', wpautop( $no_posts_message ) );

 	$inner = '';

https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/