Title: Post Status Scheduler
Author: farne
Published: <strong>June 16, 2014</strong>
Last modified: May 23, 2017

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# Post Status Scheduler

 By [farne](https://profiles.wordpress.org/farne/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/post-status-scheduler.1.3.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/post-status-scheduler/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/post-status-scheduler/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/post-status-scheduler/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/post-status-scheduler/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-status-scheduler/)

## Description

Post Status Scheduler allows for scheduling of post status changes, category/tag
adding or removing and
 removing of postmeta on any given date or time. It can be
activated on any post type and shows up on the post edit screen in the publish section.
From version 1.0.0 it has a feature for sending an email notification to the post
author on the scheduled update.

#### Shortcodes

 * [pss_scheduled_time post_id=””] can be used to get the post’s scheduled date 
   and time.

#### Filters

Scheduled Update:
 * post_status_scheduler_before_execution * post_status_scheduler_after_execution

Email Notification ( version 1.0.0 ):
 * post_status_scheduler_email_notification_recipient_email*
post_status_scheduler_email_notification_subject * post_status_scheduler_email_notification_date*
post_status_scheduler_email_notification_body

## Screenshots

[⌊Settings page.⌉⌊Settings page.⌉[

Settings page.

[⌊Edit page with no options activated.⌉⌊Edit page with no options activated.⌉[

Edit page with no options activated.

[⌊Edit page without post meta option activated.⌉⌊Edit page without post meta option
activated.⌉[

Edit page without post meta option activated.

[⌊Edit page with post meta option activated.⌉⌊Edit page with post meta option activated
.⌉[

Edit page with post meta option activated.

[⌊Edit page with email notification option.⌉⌊Edit page with email notification option
.⌉[

Edit page with email notification option.

## Installation

 1. Upload `post-status-scheduler` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Configure the Post Status Scheduler in Settings > Post Status Scheduler menu.

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

 1. Upload `post-status-scheduler` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Configure the Post Status Scheduler in Settings > Post Status Scheduler menu.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2683d2f71ec7add13592d79307c86a4c552e87966847642c771ca999648625e3?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Super useful tool, how has this not got any love](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-useful-tool-how-has-this-not-got-any-love/)󠁿

 [dccs52](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dccs52/) March 30, 2023

Super useful tool, how has this not got any love. This is a must for post types 
that are time sensitive! Would be awesome if this was checked and tested with 6.2
however as of writing it still works and no errors.

 [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-status-scheduler/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Post Status Scheduler” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ farne ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/farne/)

“Post Status Scheduler” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/post-status-scheduler/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Post Status Scheduler” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/post-status-scheduler)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-status-scheduler/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/post-status-scheduler/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/post-status-scheduler/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/post-status-scheduler/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.3.1

 * Bugfix for language translation.

#### 1.3.0

 * New feature to schedule sticky posts or schedule unsticking of post.

#### 1.2.11

 * Fixed bug on when creating new posts and no previous post object exists.
 * Fix so loading of jquery ui is managed through https.

#### 1.2.9

 * Fixed bug where previous scheduled time was not fetched properly
 * Fixed bug where if no tag taxonomies where found, tags from other taxonomies 
   where showed in dropdown. This was on custom post types.

#### 1.2.7

 * Add option on settings page to show just tags or categories when scheduling.
 * Add optgroups for categories and tags in dropdown.
 * Fixed bug where email and extra column option where always checked on the first
   save.

#### 1.0.5

 * Bugfix to make the make it possible to chose month even though there are multiple
   datepickers on the same page.

#### 1.0.4

 * Both tags and categories are now changed correctly. Previously tags were changed
   to their id and not the name.
 * Changing categories and tags now work on custom posttypes. There seems to have
   been a bug here before even though not reported.

#### 1.0.2

 * Fixed to use the correct textdomain. Translations should now work correctly.

#### 1.0.1

 * Fixed bug where, in settings, you could only choose public post types to show
   scheduler on (Reported on Github).

#### 1.0.0

 * New feature for sending email notification to post author when executing a scheduled
   update.
 * New feature makes it possible to show/remove the “Scheduled date” column on posttype
   edit page.
 * Code cleanup.

#### 0.3.0

 * Rewritten plugin to support setting multiple categories on scheduled time. I 
   have tried to make sure that it will still work with previously scheduled changes
   in previous versions of the plugin.
 * A little bit of code clean up and refactoring.

#### 0.2.1

 * Added shortcode for getting the date and time for the scheduled post change

#### 0.1.1

 * Removed unnecessary assets folder.

#### 0.1

 * Initial version

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3.1**
 *  Last updated **9 years ago**
 *  Active installations **30+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.9 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.7.35**
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-status-scheduler/) and [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/post-status-scheduler/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/post-status-scheduler)
 * Tags
 * [categories](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/categories/)[pages](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pages/)
   [postmeta](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/postmeta/)[posts](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)
   [tags](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tags/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/post-status-scheduler/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ farne ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/farne/)

## Support

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