Joomla expired article

Question

I have a list of articles in Joomla, these are events and are ordered in the front-end on date (from old to new). I filled in "finish publishing" as the date when the event ends. I understand that when the finish publishing date is reached, the article gets expired and thus is not visible in the front-end. So far so good, old events are not visible anymore.

However, what I want is to have a module "past events" in which it shows the last events that happened, at the bottom of the screen. I have looked at archived articles but that gives me a link per month, and when I click on the month it gives me a blank page (?). I have tested and apparently, because a "finish publishing date" is still present this module doesn't work probably.

I have looked at the article category module with the option of filtering the date range on a relative date, but because the events are expired (unpublished?) they don't show up either.

Now my question is, is it even possible to have a list of expired articles from a certain category, without the whole archive function (because I don't see the added value of that)? How can I just show a list of events, ordered on date in a box called "upcoming events", and if the event is over, move it to another box called "past events"?

Answer 1

You need an archive plugin to complete your task.

The archive plugin will check all expired articles and move them to archive with new expiration settings. Then you could publish your past articles with Archived Articles module.

A list of available plugins is under: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/authoring-a-content/archive

Answer 2

In Joomla 3 you usually need to create a Guest user group and Guest access level.

Set Guest user group parent to publish.

Set Guest access level to Guest User Group.

In the options of user component set the Guest User Group to Guest.