Expiring Announcements on a Church Site

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    I am rebuilding my church’s website using WP. Formerly, I had created and maintained it for a decade using the DNN (DotNetNuke) CMS but have now “seen the WP light” and am very happy to find how good and easy it is to use.
    One plugin that DNN had that I used most often was called Announcements. I could create a short article (text and a graphic) and place it on the home page with other articles, announcing the upcoming bake sale or other event. Anyone visiting the site would find and read these announcements easily and I could set them to automatically expire on a specific date, meaning I didn’t have to go and “clean up” on the website the day after the bake sale!
    I’ve found a WP plugin that I can use to automatically have any given posting expire and then find its way into oblivion, or become a draft post that I can resurrect and rewrite slightly for next year’s bake sale! Understanding that WP is, originally and importantly, a blogging platform, I can’t seem to rid myself of all of the visual and other baggage that using posts for this purpose results in. That is, I don’t want anyone commenting on these announcements, need no access to an archive of them, and desire them fully “open” and readable on the home page without the user having to click their way to more info. I guess I really just want to have 2-5 active announcements showing up on the home page that I know will automatically disappear when they’re past their best-before date.
    I’m using the free Vantage theme, if that’s of any consequence.
    Am I asking for something that WP can’t deliver?! I’ve got another dozen pages of the website all finished and looking good, but this one last quandary has me stumped and hoping to find a WP maven with a bit of advice on how to do this.

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  • Hi,

    I did a quick search for existing plugins and I’m afraid there’s no ready-made solution that can fit all of your needs. You’ll need to develop this feature by yourself or might need to hire someone for that. Here’s a manual which can be helpful for you:
    https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/add-an-expiry-date-to-wordpress-posts–cms-22665
    It explains how to add expiry date to posts and filter posts lists based on that, though you’ll need to add custom filters for hiding comments and other data for such posts.

    Thanks

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