Auto-Publish And Expiration Dates
Written by Amanda Stançani
Updated at April 2nd, 2025
You can schedule Auto-Publish dates for your articles and also set when you want to Unpublish them.
Please note that when an Auto-Publish/Expiration Date is set for an article, it will be published/expired at 00:00:00 UTC +00:00 of that selected day.
Auto-Publish Dates
- Click New Article or edit an existing article
- Click on the drop-down menu next to Publish
- Click on the Publish In Future option
- Schedule an Auto-Publish date
Expiration Dates
Super Administrators, Administrators, Collaborators
- Click New Article or edit an existing article
- Click on the drop-down menu next to Publish
- Click on the Publish & Expire option
- Set when the article should be removed from the end-user view
Draft Writers
- Click New Article or edit an existing article
- Click on the drop-down menu next to Publish
- Click on the Submit & Expire option
- Set when the article should be removed from the end-user view
Email Notifications
You can send an email to users who follow or have authored changes to an article that is expiring soon and choose how many days before expiration the email should be sent. To customize email notifications:
- Click on your Profile Picture at the bottom of the page
- Go to your Settings Page
- Scroll down until Articles Settings
- Enable the Send email before an article expires option
- Choose how many days before the article expires the email should be sent
- Customize the Expiration Recipient
Expiration Recipient field
- If you choose a specific recipient in the Expiration Recipient field, we will only send an email notification to that user.
- However, if the recipient is set to Notify Article Author, we will send a notification to the followers and the users that modified the article.
Please note that we exclude the owner from this list of users unless the owner is the only author or follower of the article.