Kronos Automatic Post Expirator Plugin for WordPress

Automatically delete posts based on a multitude of settings

Kronos is the personification of Time in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature. Kronos governed linear, chronological time. Starting from now, you can use the powers of Kronos to automatically delete old posts from your WordPress blog!

What Can You Do With This Plugin?

Kronos Automatic Post Expirator Plugin for WordPress is a breaking edge post expirator (auto deleter) plugin. It uses a built-in wp-cron engine to automatically delete posts, as you define in it’s settings!

Kronos Post Expirator plugin allows the page admin to set expiration dates for both posts and pages and any custom post type you have active on the current WordPress installation. There are a number of different ways that the posts can expire:

older/newer selection
by fixed date – posts older/newer than 21/01/2010
by relative date – posts older than 30 days

Other post filtering options:

post author name
post category
post tags
post title
post comment status
post ping status
ignore sticky posts
post meta key/meta value
post type
post status
post slug
post search keywords

Other plugin features:

republish old posts
delete posts permanently or move them to trash
set old posts as draft or pending
reset publish date for old posts, to the current time (refresh posts) – video
detailed plugin activity logging
scheduled cleanup running (using wp-cron)

Testing this plugin

You can test the plugin’s functionality using the ‘Test Site Expirator’. Here you can try the plugin’s full functionality. Note that the generated testing blog will be deleted automatically after 24 hours.

Need support?

Please check our knowledge base, it may have the answer to your question or a solution for your issue. If not, just email me at [email protected] and I will respond as soon as I can.

Changelog:

Version 1.0 Release Date 2017-08-10

First version released!

Version 1.1 Release Date 2017-08-13

Fixed some issues

Version 1.1.1 Release Date 2017-08-17

Fix some minor issues

Version 1.1.2 Release Date 2017-10-22

Bugfixes

Version 1.1.3 Release Date 2017-10-25

Fixed some css

Version 1.1.4 Release Date 2017-10-27

Made the plugin timezone aware
Added some more logging
Added an option to specify the batch size for post deletion

Version 1.1.5 Release Date 2018-01-01

Added option to skip posts from selected categories

Version 1.1.6 Release Date 2018-02-24

Fixed trashing of woocommerce products not functioning
Added the ability to set posts as 'draft' or 'pending' instead of deleting them

Version 1.1.7 Release Date 2018-04-24

Added the ability to 'reset post publish date', if post older than specified date

Version 1.1.8 Release Date 2018-05-20

Added the ability to assign random post date to 'reset post publish date' feature

Version 1.1.9 Release Date 2018-06-20

Added more flexibility to plugin auto running

Version 1.2.0 Release Date 2018-07-15

Added the ability to republish old posts

Version 1.2.1 Release Date 2019-02-24

Improved post search query

Version 1.2.2 Release Date 2019-04-19

Security update

Version 1.2.3 Release Date 2019-11-15

WordPress 5.3 compatibility update

Version 1.2.4 Release Date 2020-05-11

New features added for content templates
Bugfix update

Version 1.2.5 Release Date 2021-01-16

PHP 8 compatibility update

Version 1.2.6 Release Date 2021-04-22

Feature update: added the ability to set date range selection
Added the ability to select to query post creation date or post update date

Version 1.2.7 Release Date 2021-08-30

Added the ability to filter posts to be expired by custom taxonomy slugs/values

Are you already a customer?

If you already bought this and you have tried it out, please contact me in the item’s comment section and give me feedback, so I can make it a better WordPress plugin!

WordPress 5.9 Tested!