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Version 1.31   Updated Sunday, June 7th, 2009 at 6:18pm

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. You can also choose to only publish a draft if it has been more than a set number of hours since the last post

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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

  • 07-07-09 Version 1.31 – Added option to only publish a draft if it has been a set number of hours since the last post was added.
  • 02-22-09 Version 1.3 – Updated to work better in recent WordPress versions. Log file support added, and several other updates. Can also shift posts when no drafts are available. (version number skip is intentional)
  • 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.

Only Publish after X Hours

If used, a draft will only be published automatically if it has been more than this many hours since the last post was added.

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.

Shift Posts

If checked, the oldest published post will be re-published as a new post,
ONLY if there are no drafts left to publish.

Log File

Full path on your server where you would like the log saved. You can leave this specific to this blog, or set up a global log for multiple blogs. Leave blank to disable this feature. Be sure to give this file write-access

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    I use WordPress 2.9.1. I tried this plugin but it didn’t work. Is it probably caused by a conflict with some other plugin or “Scheduled Draft Publish Plugin for WordPress” does not work on WordPress2.9?

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    I upgraded to ver. 2.9 in WordPress. When I checked the logs, this plugin doesn’t work anymore.

    What do I need to edit in order for this plugin to work with the latest WP version?

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    is it possible to publish more posts that 1 in 1 hour?

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    draft publish but xml Sitemap post date 90% Always 1999-11-30 00:00 fix please plugin…

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    7-15-09 8:45PM

    renee: Currently, this plugin does not modify the RSS feed. I am planning on looking into this for the next release though.

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    when I use the plugin I don’t get any emails in my outlook rss, only when I set up posting schedule for a specific post or publish myself. Should there be code in the plugin that also updates RSS??

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    Version 1.31 Released

    This update adds an option to only publish a draft if it is been a set number of hours since the last post was added (set to 0 to disable this feature).

    This plugin has been tested, and works, in the latest release of WordPress – 2.8

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    I love this plugin! Only problem is that the drafts that are posted through the plugin don’t trigger the RSS. The drafts that I post directly or schedule through normal wordpress function do show on the RSS. Whaz up with that? Is there something I can do to fix this?

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    Version 1.3 Released

    This update fixes many issues for users of recent WordPress versions. It has been tested in the latest release of WordPress (2.7.1)

    The version number skip is intentional, to make it match the revisions in the scheduled post shift plugin.

    Log file support has also been added, to see exactly what the plugin is doing.

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    A new version of this plugin is going to be released fairly soon that fixes all of the problems some people are experiencing. Stay tuned!

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