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Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Update for Friday, September 17, 2021.
Topics covered in this issue…
• How to give a post an expiration date in WordPress
• Should you connect to your router via WiFi or wired Ethernet?
• Q&A: Is there a way to extend Windows 11’s roll-back period past 10 days?
• How to quickly select everything in a document at once
• Check out ‘Just Enough Room Island’ – the smallest inhabited island in the world!
• Info about my photo / file recovery service
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Today’s Quick Tip….
How to give a post an expiration date in WordPress
Do you ever publish temporary posts (or pages) on your blog? You know, things like notices of specials you’re running and such?
If so, chances are you occasionally forget to take them down in a timely manner, resulting in confusion among your readers/customers.
Well, there’s a fantastic free plugin that can help ensure that you never leave another post up after it’s deadline has been reached.
It’s called Post Expirator, and it works like a charm.
Simply install and activate the plugin and you’ll immediately have a new option in your WordPress Dashboard for assigning an expiration date to any post or page.
Once that date arrives the post will automatically switch from ‘Published’ mode to ‘Draft’ mode, after which you can update the post and republish it, keep it as a draft for later use, or simply delete it.
Either way, the post will no longer be available on your blog after the expiration date arrives.
You can read more about the ‘Post Expirator’ plugin right here.
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The latest from Rick’s Daily Tips…
• Should you connect to your router via WiFi or wired Ethernet?
Do you often wonder whether you should connect your computer to your router via WiFi or wired Ethernet? The tips in this post can help you decide.
• Q&A: Why won’t my monitor work at the correct resolution?
A reader wants to know how to get her monitor to work at the correct resolution after a Windows update messed it all up. This post helped her solve the issue.
• Q&A: When you delete a file, where does it go?
A reader is curious about what happens to a file after it’s deleted from her Windows PC. This post has the answer.
• Click here to see today’s ‘Picture of the Day’ .
Every morning I post a new photo that I find inspiring, intriguing, or just plain beautiful to look at. Jumpstart your day by checking it out.
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Today’s post from ‘My Daily Smile’…
You won’t believe how much it cost to restore this 54 year old Mustang
The video in this post shows a rusty old 1967 Shelby GT-500 Mustang that had been sitting in a barn for decades being restored to (almost) new condition. Check it out.
Tech news that caught my eye…
• Alphabet’s Project Taara uses lasers to beam internet across tricky terrain
• Microsoft Office 2021 will launch on October 5th
• GM tells Bolt EV owners park away from vehicles in decks to reduce fire risk
• Facebook has a new policy for fighting ‘coordinated social harm’
• T-Mobile will start offering in-store phone repairs on November 1st
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