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But what happens when a promotion ends or a new product is no longer \"new\"? You have to remember to uncheck them manually.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Timed featured products for WooCommerce<\/strong> automates this process. This plugin allows you to tell WooCommerce exactly how many days a product should remain featured. Once that time passes, the product will automatically lose its featured status and return to being a normal product in your catalog.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Main Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Global Settings:<\/strong> Set a default number of days for all your featured products to remain highlighted.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Product-Level Override:<\/strong> Need a specific product to be featured for a longer or shorter time? You can easily override the global settings directly from the product's General tab.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automated Expiration:<\/strong> The plugin runs a lightweight daily check to automatically un-feature products that have reached their expiration limit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Admin Column:<\/strong> Keep track of your catalog easily with a new column in the WooCommerce product list showing the remaining featured days for each item.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lightweight &amp; Clean:<\/strong> Developed strictly following WordPress and WooCommerce best practices (CRUD methods) to ensure zero impact on your store's frontend performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<p><strong>Automatic Installation (Recommended):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>From your WordPress dashboard, navigate to <code>Plugins &gt; Add New<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>Search for \"Timed featured products for WooCommerce\".<\/li>\n<li>Click \"Install Now\" and then \"Activate\".<\/li>\n<li>Go to <code>WooCommerce &gt; Timed featured products<\/code> to set your global default days.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<p><strong>Manual Installation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Download the plugin's <code>.zip<\/code> file from the WordPress.org repository.<\/li>\n<li>Unzip the file and upload the <code>timed-featured-products-for-woocommerce<\/code> folder to the <code>\/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code> directory of your WordPress installation.<\/li>\n<li>Activate the plugin from the <code>Plugins<\/code> menu in your dashboard.<\/li>\n<li>Configure your global settings in <code>WooCommerce &gt; Timed featured products<\/code>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id=\"what%20happens%20when%20the%20featured%20time%20expires%3F\"><h3>What happens when the featured time expires?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>The product is NOT deleted, hidden, or set to draft. 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