Presswell Publication Schedule

You may want to avoid having new content publish during times of low user engagement, such as overnight or weekends. The plugin will ensure your editorial calendar is consistent and predictable.

When someone publishes a post in wp-admin, the plugin checks all previously scheduled posts against the publication schedule and sets the post's publish date to the next available time slot. Posts that are already published, private posts, and posts created by imports or other plugins are not changed. Each post type has its own slots, so a post and a page can both be scheduled for the same time.

The post is published immediately rather than held back, and the person who published it sees a notice explaining why.

Yes. Admins and Editors can use "Publish now" to publish a post immediately, or choose their own date: in the block editor by changing the publish date, and in the classic editor and Quick Edit with the "Override Publication Schedule" checkbox. When Authors publish, the post always takes the next open slot, even if they picked a date. Who counts as an Editor here can be changed with the pwps_manage_caps filter.

The time slot that the post was originally scheduled for is freed and becomes available for the next new post. Posts already scheduled will not be modified.

WordPress publishes scheduled posts with WP-Cron, which only runs when someone visits the site and the server can reach itself. With Missed Schedules on (the default), a post more than a minute late is published on the next visit. For exact timing on quiet sites, set up a server cron job for wp-cron.php.

Scheduled posts keep their dates. Settings and the per-post schedule details are removed only when Remove Data is on; notices, locks, and debug logs are always removed.