Scheduled Draft Publish Plugin for WordPress

This plugin uses the built-in scheduling feature of WordPress to periodically take a draft post and publish it. You can define the time between occurrences, and choose to have it publish the oldest draft each time, or a random draft. By default, it publishes drafts in any category, but you can define one, or multiple, categories for it to take the drafts from.

Notice: Because this plugin directly modifies the status of posts in the database, and it is the first release, a backup of your WordPress database is recommended. While it has been tested, it is always a good thing to do if a plugin is going to be modifying the database directly.

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• Latest Release (For WordPress 2.1 through 2.6+)

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Instructions

• Download the above file, rename it from .txt to .php, and upload it to your plugins directory
• Enable the plugin
• Configure the plugin options (under DDSchedDraft)
• Click the ‘Enable Draft Publish’ button to start

Disabling the Schedule

To stop the schedule, simply click the ‘Disable Draft Publish’ button on the options page.

Change Log

• 08-28-08 Version 1.0 - First release.

Options

Here are the options available in this plugin’s options page in the WordPress admin panel.

Draft Publish Delay

This is the number of hours between the publishing of drafts. The schedule will start as soon as you click the ‘Enable Draft Publish’ button.

Category IDs

If left blank, the plugin will operate on all of your posts. If you enter a comma-separated list of category ID’s, it will only publish drafts in those categories.

Random

If enabled, the plugin will publish a random draft each time the schedule runs. If disabled, it will publish the oldest draft each time.