Setup cron job
You want to do some action (i.e. publishing a post) periodically, so first you need to schedule a cron job. Cron jobs are actions, that are fired periodically at some sort of a time interval.
You can either use (non-perfect) WordPress Cron or replace it with a real cron job on your hosting.
In cron action, publish one of the post with status draft
Inside the cron job, you can query for 1 post with the post_status === 'draft'
. If one is found, change its post_status
to publish
with wp_update_post
.
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