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Version 1.22   Updated Thursday, August 28th, 2008 at 7:19pm

Scheduled Post Shift Plugin for WordPress

This plugin automatically takes your oldest post, and updates its timestamp so that it appears as the latest post on your WordPress site. It does this by utilizing the cron feature built into WordPress 2.1 (and newer). It can rotate all the posts on your site, or just ones in specific categories. You can currently schedule it by setting the number of hours between shifts. For example, set it to 24 hours and it will shift the oldest post every day, at the time that you enabled it.

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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 DDPostShift)
  • Click the ‘Enable Post Shift’ button to start

Disabling the Schedule

To stop the schedule, simply click the ‘Disable Post Shift’ button on the options page.

Change Log

  • 08-28-08 Version 1.22 - A few bugs fixed. Now supports multiple category rotation.
  • 04-27-08 Version 1.21 - Updated for WordPress 2.5 and to be compatible with WP Security Scan plugin
  • 09-29-07 Version 1.2 - Updated for WordPress 2.3
  • 05-16-07 Version 1.1 - Updated for WordPress 2.2
  • 04-09-07 Version 1.0 - First release

Options

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

Shift Delay

This is the number of hours between post shifts. The schedule will start as soon as you click the ‘Enable Post Shift’ 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 update posts in those categories.

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  1. As others have reported, it looks like DD Post Shift doesn’t work in 2.7. To me it looks like the queries are still good. So I’m guessing it’s related to the cron functionality which I’m not familiar enough with to test.

    Marios

  2. Hello

    Don’t work with WP 2.7 :(

  3. It’s not work on ver 2.7
    Need new release

  4. It’s really great plugin! But it doesn’t work with the newest WP and it is pity. I’m interceding for upgrade.
    Thanks a lot for a good job.
    ====
    Anybody can confirm this information???

  5. The script seems to be disabling itself randomly. It will accept updates of how many hours, and I can Enable/Disable it … but it’s not holding the “Enable” state.

    Hope you can fix this, it’s a great idea.

  6. Thank you ive been looking for something like this. Now I can go on holiday without stressing cheers.

  7. It’s really great plugin! But it doesn’t work with the newest WP and it is pity. I’m interceding for upgrade.
    Thanks a lot for a good job.

  8. I agree - this plugin looks great, but I can’t get it to work on the latest version of WP. Any thoughts (or not) on an update?

    Thanks!

  9. Hi I use this great plugin on one of my older blogs…
    But on my new WP blog it doesnt work :(

    Will there be an update so users with the newest WP can also use it?

    Thanks for the great work mate!

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