Plug-in that orders by date posted AND by an expiration date?

  • Bear with me if I don’t at first make sense here – I’m very new to this stuff.

    Here’s the deal. I run a site currently on blogger and want to move over to wordpress because i need more complete cms abilities. This site will be listing a bunch of brief posts.

    I want my site to be able to order these posts in two ways: one by the date posted (from most recently posted to least recently) and one by an expiration date people will be indicating when they submit their posts (these would be ordered to show the ones that are expiring on the current day at the top of the list and ones that don’t expire for a while at the bottom, and not show those that have already expired at all).

    Each list will draw from same set of posts, and the order viewers will see the posts in will depend on which option they have selected from the home page. Posts will contain a small amount of texts, links, and a small picture, in case any of that info matters.

    Is there any plug-in or set of plug-ins that could do both these things that anyone is aware of? Suggestions?

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  • one by the date posted (from most recently posted to least recently)

    That’s normally the order WordPress displays posts.

    one by an expiration date people will be indicating when they submit their posts (these would be ordered to show the ones that are expiring on the current day at the top of the list and ones that don’t expire for a while at the bottom, and not show those that have already expired at all).

    Create a Page Template and a Page with that Template assigned. In the Template use a query_posts loop to order the posts by Custom Field. When writing a post create a custom field called ‘expiration’ and put a value of 2010-06-25 to expire the post June 25, 2010.

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