Expire posts from homepage, but remain published in the archive

  • I need to show recent news (i.e. posts) on the sidebar of the homepage on a client’s site. There can be several weeks between new posts though (it’s not a super active industry), so I want the post to expire from the homepage after a set amount of time, but still remain on the News (blog) page.

    One solution I’m thinking about is to create a tag (“featured” or something like that), then show only posts with that tag on the homepage. Then, after a set amount of time, edit the post to remove the tag to remove it from the homepage.

    However, I would prefer to make it expire from the homepage automatically. I’d also like the “Recent News” heading to disappear if there are no posts to display.

    I found a tutorial of how to expire posts with custom fields (e.g. basically, create a custom field with a key of “expiration” and a value of date/time with the format mm/dd/yyyy 00:00:00), but this is too technical for the client. I’d rather set the expiration right in the loop so they don’t have to do anything but publish the post.

    Any ideas?

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  • Maybe something like this?
    https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/97031/code-to-auto-expire-posts-after-30-days

    Thread Starter robgolbeck

    (@robgolbeck)

    I figured it out, with some help from the codex and this thread.

    Here’s what I went with:

    <?php
     function filter_where($where = '') {
     //only show posts published within the last 30 days
     $where .= " AND post_date > '" . date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-30 days')) . "'";
     return $where;
     }
     add_filter('posts_where', 'filter_where');

     // Query posts
     query_posts( 'posts_per_page=1' );

     // The Loop
     if (have_posts()) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
     echo '<li>';
     echo '<a href="';
     the_permalink();
     echo '">';
     the_title();
     echo '</a>';
     echo '</li>';
     endwhile; endif;

     //remove the filter
     remove_filter('posts_where', 'filter_where');

     // Reset Query
     wp_reset_query();
?>

    I’m not certain if remove_filter is in the best spot, but it works! ??

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