The Expired Entries plugin for Movable Type and Melody allows authors to select a date in the future at which an entry will be automatically unpublished and the site rebuilt.
For a blog, unpublishing is sacriledge, but not everyone uses Movable Type to power a blog. Some people administer store fronts powered by Movable Type in which items are seasonal, or for which a vendor is only allowed to sell an item for certain period of time. Some people may want to orchestrate by automating the deployment of new web site content - in which they used scheduled posts and post expiration to remove outdated copy and publish new copy all at once. The truth is there are tons of reasons you might want automatically remove something from a web site.
- Movable Type 4.x.
- Your site must be running the
tools/run-periodic-tasksscript as a cronjob or in daemon mode.
To install this plugin follow the instructions found here:
http://tinyurl.com/easy-plugin-install
Once the plugin is installed a new option will appear on the Edit Entry screen under each entry and page's publish date field. Select a date, save the entry and done.
At the appointed time the entry's status will be changed to "Unpublished (Expired)," the entry will be removed from the web site and the necessary pages in your web site rebuilt to remove all trace of the entry or page.
- ExpireEntryFrequency - The amount of time in minutes to wait before checking, expiring and unpublishing entries. The default is 1 (expressed in minutes).