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auto-prune-posts

Auto Prune Posts

Auto deletes expires (prunes) posts after a certain amount of time. On a per category basis (single category, or all at once.

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Download Momentum

180 days
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Source Evidence

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complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.91
PHP 8.0 compatiblity

PHP 8.0 compatiblity: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around clean before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
PHP 8.0 compatiblity Plugin is not compatible with PHP 8.0+.
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.89
I have problem. When i delete post?

I have problem. When i delete post?: users show bugs, performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around clean before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
I click delete and Gateway time out And then all post is missing.
complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.7
Latest Update causes Fatal Error

Auto Prune Posts shipped without a required framework file, causing a fatal error that locked the user out until the plugin was disabled or fixed.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around clean before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
I have had to deactivate the plugin via File manager in cPanel because I couldn’t access my site at all.
mixed review · medium severity · relevance 0.87
Postman conflit

Postman conflit: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Postman conflit When I install the plugin I get this error: Postman: wp_mail has been declared by another plugin or theme, so you won’t be able to use Postman until the conflict is resolved.
complaint review · medium severity · relevance 0.86
No work

No work: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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No work Warning Declaration of plugin_auto_prune_posts::addPluginSubMenu() should be compatible with mijnpress_plugin_framework::addPluginSubMenu($title, $function, $file, $capability = 10, $where = ‘plugins.ph…’) 1 wp-content/plugins/auto-prune-posts/auto-prune-posts.php:20 wp-settings.php wp-settings.php:215 Core Declaration of plugin_auto_prune_posts::add
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.86
Plugin Problem – Auto Prune Posts

Plugin Problem – Auto Prune Posts: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around clean before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
Plugin Problem – Auto Prune Posts Hello All, Getting below error msg on web site.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.8
Database error

Database error: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Database error hello, whay is ths happening only when I use your plugin WordPress database error Duplicate entry ‘73983’ for key ‘PRIMARY’ for query INSERT INTO wp_rank_math_internal_meta ( object_id , internal_link_count , external_link_count ) VALUES (73983, ‘0’, ‘0’) made by require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘wp-load.php’), require_once(‘wp-conf
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
Problem with php warnings

Problem with php warnings: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Problem with php warnings Hello and thank you for your plugin.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
Conflict with wpMandrill plug

Conflict with wpMandrill plug: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Conflict with wpMandrill plug When this plugin is active, wpMandrill generates the error: Mandrill: wp_mail has been declared by another process or plugin, so you won’t be able to use Mandrill until the problem is solved.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Exclude by tag?

Exclude by tag?: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around clean before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
Hi, I am using your Auto-Prune plugin which is working great even though it has not been updated recently, so I am not sure if you are actively supporting it.

Competitor Context

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Image Cleanup praise owner · intel 78.9 · weakness 71.9
praise owner
stale update history below-average rating bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
WP-Sweep weak incumbent · intel 72.2 · weakness 56.6
weak incumbent
2 unresolved support thread(s) 26 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect optimize slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source 1 source 2
WP-Cleanup praise owner · intel 68.5 · weakness 64.5
praise owner
stale update history 11 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature performance 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect database slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source 1 source 2
Database Cleaner praise owner · intel 67.7 · weakness 50.8
praise owner
8 collected complaint signal(s) bugs performance 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect database slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source 1 source 2
Advanced WordPress Reset – Debug, Recover & Reset WP praise owner · intel 65.4 · weakness 45.5
praise owner
6 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect database slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source 1 source 2
Transient Cleaner praise owner · intel 65.3 · weakness 48.5
praise owner
11 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect database slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source 1 source 2
Media Hygiene: Remove or Delete Unused Images and More! praise owner · intel 64.9 · weakness 48.8
praise owner
1 unresolved support thread(s) 11 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test images embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
source 1 source 2
Mass Delete Unused Tags praise owner · intel 64.1 · weakness 49.8
praise owner
stale update history 4 collected complaint signal(s) support setup 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check tags publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2

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Collected Signals

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complaint Can’t remove an auto prune rule after category was deleted support · 2026-05-23T10:12:51+00:00 · medium severity · clean

Deleting a category left an auto-prune rule stuck, and attempts to remove it caused a critical error while raising concern about leftover cron jobs.

Evidence: the page turns white with an error message about a “Critical Error …”
bugs setup auto prune rules Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Seems not support ACF CPTs support · 2025-12-08T17:47:25+00:00 · low severity · clean

The user could not select ACF-created custom post types in Auto Prune Posts because only regular posts appeared.

Evidence: it only shows posts. I cannot see or select any kind of CPTs that created with ACF
missing feature compatibility ACF custom post types Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Latest Update causes Fatal Error support · 2025-11-10T12:35:21+00:00 · high severity · clean

Auto Prune Posts shipped without a required framework file, causing a fatal error that locked the user out until the plugin was disabled or fixed.

Evidence: I have had to deactivate the plugin via File manager in cPanel because I couldn’t access my site at all.
bugs plugin package files Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Does your plugin work with BuddyPress? support · 2025-03-03T08:33:13+00:00 · medium severity · clean

Does your plugin work with BuddyPress?: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Is it possible to delete BuddyPress activity with your plugin?
missing feature Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
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praise Reliable way to delete old posts (5 stars) review · 2024-08-21T08:18:14+00:00 · medium severity · clean

Reliable way to delete old posts: users praise reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Reliable way to delete old posts This plugin works well to automatically delete old posts on a schedule.
reliable Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Exclude by tag? support · 2024-03-10T17:10:08+00:00 · medium severity · clean

Exclude by tag?: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Hi, I am using your Auto-Prune plugin which is working great even though it has not been updated recently, so I am not sure if you are actively supporting it.
missing feature support quality Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around clean before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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mixed Database error support · 2023-02-13T13:07:01+00:00 · medium severity · clean

Database error: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Database error hello, whay is ths happening only when I use your plugin WordPress database error Duplicate entry ‘73983’ for key ‘PRIMARY’ for query INSERT INTO wp_rank_math_internal_meta ( object_id , internal_link_count , external_link_count ) VALUES (73983, ‘0’, ‘0’) made by require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘wp-load.php’), require_once(‘wp-conf
bugs compatibility performance missing feature Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
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praise Works fine on WP 6.1.1 (5 stars) review · 2022-12-06T06:31:07+00:00 · medium severity · clean

Works fine on WP 6.1.1: users praise reliable, value, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Works fine on WP 6.1.1 I realise this plugin hasn’t been updated for a while but I just wanted to say it’s great and works well on the most recent version of WordPress.
reliable value quality reporting Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Other post types support · 2022-09-01T13:11:49+00:00 · medium severity · clean

Other post types: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Other post types I see it’s possible to add other post types, does this include WooCommerce “Products”?
compatibility missing feature woocommerce Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint PHP 8.0 compatiblity support · 2022-06-10T13:37:38+00:00 · high severity · clean

PHP 8.0 compatiblity: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: PHP 8.0 compatiblity Plugin is not compatible with PHP 8.0+.
bugs compatibility support Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Change Status to Draft support · 2021-10-01T06:52:46+00:00 · medium severity · clean

Change Status to Draft: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Is there a function I can add to my theme or a line number in the plugin files you can point me to in order to control the post.
compatibility Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
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question Does the plugin delete the media attachments too? support · 2021-06-30T09:01:33+00:00 · low severity · clean

Does the plugin delete the media attachments too?: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: What about the feature image or media attachments to the post ..
missing feature Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Plugin Problem – Auto Prune Posts support · 2020-12-09T13:53:25+00:00 · medium severity · clean

Plugin Problem – Auto Prune Posts: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Plugin Problem – Auto Prune Posts Hello All, Getting below error msg on web site.
bugs compatibility support Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
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mixed Problem with php warnings support · 2020-09-07T05:41:00+00:00 · medium severity · clean

Problem with php warnings: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Problem with php warnings Hello and thank you for your plugin.
bugs compatibility support Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
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mixed Throws errors on activation. (3 stars) review · 2019-10-07T15:58:53+00:00 · medium severity · clean

Throws errors on activation.: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Throws errors on activation.
bugs Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
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neutral Not Working? At least on my CPT posts. support · 2019-09-06T12:49:42+00:00 · medium severity · clean

Not Working? At least on my CPT posts.: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Not Working? At least on my CPT posts. I can’t get the plugin to work at all on deleting my custom post type posts 🙁 https://ibb.co/0qcsn9G https://ibb.co/z23k8jk I can’t get the plugin to work at all on deleting my custom post type posts 🙁 https://ibb.co/0qcsn9G https://ibb.co/z23k8jk
Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around clean before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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mixed Cannot delete by minute support · 2019-03-22T10:08:45+00:00 · low severity · clean

Cannot delete by minute: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Cannot delete by minute Hi, I have added minute into the array in the php, but when I set the requirement to delete posts after 5 minute(s), the posts are not deleted.
compatibility support value Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around clean before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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mixed Schedule deletion of Post? support · 2018-11-07T14:42:24+00:00 · low severity · clean

Schedule deletion of Post?: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I’ve used this plugin for quite a while and it has been great.
missing feature quality Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around clean before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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neutral Subcategories included? support · 2018-10-02T05:51:06+00:00 · low severity · clean

Subcategories included?: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Subcategories included? Hi – thanks for useful plugin I’m too lazy to test this – so… if we set Parent Category for deletion will Subcategory posts also get deleted? regards, Hi – thanks for useful plugin I’m too lazy to test this – so… if we set Parent Category for deletion will Subcategory posts also get deleted? regards, Yes. Children of that category are
Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
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praise Good Job (5 stars) review · 2018-06-17T05:13:03+00:00 · medium severity · clean

Good Job: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Good Job Works Perfectly no errors faced yet Works Perfectly no errors faced yet
bugs reliable quality Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
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