Weeding Content on Library Website

[Lolis, John]

We also use WordPress for our website.  I found a plugin called Post
Expirator that allows us to set an expiration date and time.  As for the
expired actions it can take, you can set it per post to delete, save as
private, save as a draft, or remove, add or replace one or more
categories.  It works well for us.

As for a content retention policy, we don't delete posts, but instead keep
them available in a post archive.  A typical scenario is where we have a
post removed from the "Featured" category so that it no longer appears on
our homepage or digital signage.  We also have what are called "evergreen"
posts that will always be relevant, and that we cycle through from time to
time.


John Lolis
Coordinator of Computer Systems
White Plains Public Library
100 Martine Avenue
White Plains, NY  10601

tel: 1.914.422.1497
fax: 1.914.422.1452

http://whiteplainslibrary.org/


*I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I
go into the other room and read a book.*     Groucho Marx

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Pruntel,Alison <
Alison.Pruntel at fauquiercounty.gov> wrote:

>  ***Apologies in advance, this has been posted on several listservs***
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> Hello all,
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> Our website (http://fauquierlibrary.org/) uses WordPress as a CMS. We
> post content (book reviews, info. about authors, etc.) to the site several
> times a week, and all of our posts end up on
> http://fauquierlibrary.org/library-updates/ -- for browsing; otherwise
> you can just search the site for a topic and any related posts would
> hopefully show up in the results.
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> We are trying to come up with some guidelines on when to remove posts that
> are past their shelf life.
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> For those of you who post to your site/have ongoing updates, do you weed
> out content that is no longer relevant? What criteria do you use to weed
> out, i.e., info. about a particular program/event that has passed, do you
> keep up X months after just in case? I’m thinking our book lists/staff
> recommendations, etc., would stay indefinitely, but a post recapping a teen
> program could probably go.
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> We never worried about this in the past, when we had a static website. We
> were just using Blogger to post dynamic/timely content (which was linked to
> from our static website), but now that all content is published on our
> site, need to rethink that.
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> Thanks in advance for responding,
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> *Alison Pruntel*
> Electronic Resources Librarian
> Fauquier County Public Library
> 11 Winchester Street
> Warrenton, VA 20186
> 540-422-8515
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> http://fauquierlibrary.org
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