A lightweight plugin to automatically unpublish or trash posts, pages and custom post types at a scheduled time.
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🎯 Never miss scheduled posts again! Automatically publishes missed scheduled posts on time, every time. Zero bloat, single purpose, reliable.
Fixes the WordPress "missed schedule" error. Posts that miss their scheduled time publish automatically via a lightweight cron job.
PressHangar Draft Pacerv0.2.12
Automatically schedule your existing drafts to publish over time at a natural pace — a hands-off post scheduler and auto-publisher for WordPress.
Automate when your WordPress content starts, expires, and changes. Expire posts, pages and custom post types automatically.
Control how published content is updated. Users submit revisions and duplicate posts. Editors can approve, reject or schedule those revisions.
YBP Schedule Rewritev1.3.13
Schedule future updates for published posts (Classic Editor only), including title, content, excerpt, featured image, and SEO meta descriptions.
Set a weekly publishing schedule, then queue drafts to fill the next open slot automatically. A simple editorial calendar of scheduled posts.
MSC Post Expiryv1.7.2
Automatically expire posts and pages on a schedule — trash, delete, draft, make private, recategorise or redirect. With notifications and analytics.
WST Post Expirationv1.0.0
Set an expiration date and time on a post. Once that time passes, the post is moved back to draft automatically.