Post Expirator (formerly maintained by Aaron Axelsen, now under the PublishPress brand) lets editors pick a future date in the post sidebar and an action to run on that date: draft the post, change its status, swap categories, or delete it. The chosen timestamp lands in the _expiration-date meta key on the post, the chosen options land in _expiration-date-options, and the actual job is scheduled into the WordPress cron under the postexpiratorexpire hook.

SleekView Charts reads the same postmeta and the cron schedule and turns them into a dashboard. A Number KPI counts posts expiring in the next seven days. A Pie groups expirations by the configured action (draft, delete, trash, category-replace) so editors see the mix at a glance. A Bar chart breaks down expirations by post_type, useful when products, events, and posts all share the plugin. An Area chart trends expirations per day so the editorial calendar lines up with the expiry curve.

Because everything reads from postmeta and the standard cron events table, there are no custom tables, no exports, and no nightly sync. New expirations show up on the next refresh. Editors stop guessing whether forty posts are about to vanish, and ops stops wondering why traffic dropped on a Tuesday morning.

Post Expirator is the de-facto WordPress plugin for unpublishing or transforming posts on a schedule, and it does the job perfectly at the per-post level. Once a date and an action are picked, the queue goes quiet. Editors rarely know how many posts will vanish next Tuesday, ops rarely knows a cliff is coming, and agencies rarely see expirations in their monthly client report.

The data exists in postmeta the whole time, but no admin screen aggregates it. SleekView Charts reads the same _expiration-date and _expiration-date-options meta rows the plugin already writes, joins them to post type and to the cron queue, and renders the queue as chart cards. Expirations in seven days, by action, by post type, and per day all show up on one screen.

The editorial calendar gains a queue view, ops gains an early warning for traffic drops, and agencies gain proof that the auto-unpublish system is doing exactly what was configured.