Title: Old Post Warning
Author: Șerban
Published: <strong>May 21, 2019</strong>
Last modified: November 28, 2025

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# Old Post Warning

 By [Șerban](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zionptm/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/old-post-warning.0.2-20251128-1.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/old-post-warning/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/old-post-warning/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/old-post-warning/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/old-post-warning/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/old-post-warning/)

## Description

On every single post, older than 1 year (365 days), you may add a custom formatted
text, in order to let your readers
 know the information included might be outdated.

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

 1. Upload `old-post-warning` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Go to `Old Post Warning` menu and customize your notification.

## FAQ

### Can I customize font and color?

Yes. You can customize the text appearance the same way you do it when posting an
article.

### What type of content can I insert in the notification?

You can add any type of content WordPress supports: text, images, videos, tables
etc.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4e6a12bda7b59db8c771c5d2303a1b8733cd196941f6ad021b3b8f1fd13684df?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Perfect for what it does](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-for-what-it-does-3/)󠁿

 [Andreas B. Melin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/herr-morris/) August 17, 2020

A simple, but perfect plugin, to help visitors not sharing old posts as a new post.
Maybe it would have been nice, if you could have set the “old” timeslot yourself,
so that a post that is 3 month old actually could be marked old, or just “a while
ago” 😉

 [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/old-post-warning/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Old Post Warning” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Șerban ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zionptm/)

[Translate “Old Post Warning” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/old-post-warning)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/old-post-warning/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/old-post-warning/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/old-post-warning/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/old-post-warning/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.2-20251228-1

Ready for 6.9 version.

#### 0.2-20251107

 * Version update
 * License update
 * Default warning message fix
 * Form structure fix
 * Days option retrieval fix
 * Commit message cleanup

#### 0.1 alpha

 * First version of plugin. Any feedback is appreciated!

## Meta

 *  Version **0.2-20251128-1**
 *  Last updated **4 months ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/old-post-warning/)
 * Tags
 * [deprecated](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/deprecated/)[notification](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/notification/)
   [old post](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/old-post/)[warning](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/warning/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/old-post-warning/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  1 5-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/old-post-warning/reviews/?filter=5)
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## Contributors

 *   [ Șerban ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zionptm/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/old-post-warning/)

## Donate

Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin?

 [ Donate to this plugin ](https://revolut.me/serban)