Description
The PublishPress Future plugin allows you to make automatic changes to posts, pages and other content types. On a date you choose, PublishPress Future can delete your post, change the status, or update the post categories, or make other changes.
Here’s an overview of what you can do with PublishPress Future:
- Choose expiry dates for content in any post type.
- Select expiry dates in the right sidebar when editing posts.
- Modify, remove or completely delete content when the expiry date arrives.
- Modify expiry dates using “Quick Edit” and “Bulk Edit”.
- Receive email notifications when your content expires.
- Show expiry dates in your content, automatically or with shortcodes.
PublishPress Future Pro
Upgrade to PublishPress Future Pro
This plugin is the free version of the PublishPress Future plugin. The Pro version comes with all the features you need to schedule changes to your WordPresss content. Click here to purchase the best plugin for scheduling WordPress content updates!
Options for Future Actions on Posts
With PublishPress Future, you can configure actions that will happen automatically to your content. Here are the changes you can choose for your posts:
- Change the status to “Draft”.
- Delete the post.
- Send the post to the Trash.
- Change the status to “Private”.
- Enable the “Stick to the top of the blog” option.
- Disable the “Stick to the top of the blog” option.
- Remove all existing categories, and add new categories.
- Keep all existing categories, and add new categories.
- Keep all existing categories, except for those specified in this change.
- Move the post to a custom status (Pro version)
Click here for more details on scheduling post changes.
Display the Action Date in Your Content
PublishPress Future allows you to place automatically show the expiry or action date inside your articles. The date will be added at the bottom of your post.
Click here to see the Footer Display options.
You can use shortcodes to show the expiration date inside your posts. You can customize the shortcode output with several formatting options.
Click here to see the shortcode options.
Expiry Defaults for Post Types
PublishPress Future can support any post type in WordPress. Go to Settings > PublishPress Future > Defaults and you can choose default expiry options for each post type.
Click here to see the default options.
PublishPress Future Email Notifications
The PublishPress Future plugin can send you email notifications when your content is changed. You can control the emails by going to Settings > PublishPress Future > General Settings.
Click here to see the notification options.
Details on How Post Changes Works
For each expiration event, a custom cron job is scheduled. This can help reduce server overhead for busy sites. This plugin REQUIRES that WP-CRON is setup and functional on your webhost. Some hosts do not support this, so please check and confirm if you run into issues using the plugin.
Click here to see the technical details for this plugin.
Logs for All Your Post Changes
PublishPress Future Pro allows you to keep a detailed record of all the changes that happen to your posts. PublishPress Future records several key data points for all actions:
- The post that the action was performed on.
- Details of the change made to the post.
- When the change was made to the post.
Click here to see more about the logs feature.
Join PublishPress and get the Pro plugins
The Pro versions of the PublishPress plugins are well worth your investment. The Pro versions have extra features and faster support. Click here to join PublishPress.
Join PublishPress and you’ll get access to these nine Pro plugins:
- PublishPress Authors Pro allows you to add multiple authors and guest authors to WordPress posts.
- PublishPress Blocks Pro has everything you need to build professional websites with the WordPress block editor.
- PublishPress Capabilities Pro is the plugin to manage your WordPress user roles, permissions, and capabilities.
- PublishPress Checklists Pro enables you to define tasks that must be completed before content is published.
- PublishPress Future Pro is the plugin for scheduling changes to your posts.
- PublishPress Permissions Pro is the plugin for advanced WordPress permissions.
- PublishPress Planner Pro is the plugin for managing and scheduling WordPress content.
- PublishPress Revisions Pro allows you to update your published pages with teamwork and precision.
- PublishPress Series Pro enables you to group content together into a series
Together, these plugins are a suite of powerful publishing tools for WordPress. If you need to create a professional workflow in WordPress, with moderation, revisions, permissions and more… then you should try PublishPress.
Bug Reports
Bug reports for PublishPress Future are welcomed in our repository on GitHub. Please note that GitHub is not a support forum, and that issues that are not properly qualified as bugs will be closed.