Would be nice to have expiration date/time option

Thanks for the suggestion. That may be something I can implement in the future.

This is an important implementation even for me. There may be news soon?
Thanks, Carlo

I still have it on my list of potential updates, but I don’t have any idea of when or if I will be implementing it.

Since I just needed to do this on a site I figured I’d post a quick solution. I used Advanced Custom Fields to add a meta field to the ditty_news_ticker post type. You can use whatever post_meta plugin you prefer.

In my case the date is stored in Ymd format, ex: 20160629

I wanted to display the latest non-expired ticker (if there is one) in the header of the site so I just used the following get_posts() query — note that the meta_key for my custom field is expiration_date:

//- get most recent news ticker
        $args = array(
            'post_type' => 'ditty_news_ticker',
            'posts_per_page' => 1,
            'meta_query' => array(
                'relation' => 'OR',
                array(
                    'key' => 'expiration_date',
                    'compare' => 'NOT EXISTS'
                    ),
                array(
                    'key' => 'expiration_date',
                    'value' => date( 'Ymd' ),
                    'meta_compare' => '<='
                )
            )
        );

    if( $ticker = reset( get_posts( $args ) ) ){
            if( function_exists( 'ditty_news_ticker' )){
                ditty_news_ticker( $ticker->ID ); }
    }