When I go to view scheduled posts, I want the default sort order to have the soonest scheduled posts on top. The posts by default are indeed being sorted by the post date in descending order, so if you want the order be ascending instead, then there’s no admin setting for that, but you can … Read more
I would do this with wp-cli. It’s a one line command: $ wp post update $(wp post list –post_status=draft –post_type=page –format=ids) –post_status=publish This command lists all pages that are draft (by id) and then updates all their statuses to “publish”. This is of course if these are actually pages. If it’s posts, you just need … Read more
Don’t use the publish date as the event date. Save the event’s date in a custom field in the format yyyy-mm-dd, and use a meta query to order events by that date. Also see pre_get_posts for ordering events correctly on archive pages without running a new query.
It’s possible to add a custom dropdown box to the submit meta-box: where the user can only select X days into the future. If the date is too far, we set the post date to the current date. Here’s how it looks like in action when I add a new post, change the date and … Read more
I found the answer, dropping it here in case someone need it. You need to be logged in as a user that has the edit_posts capability. With that capability, you also get access to the private query vars, including post_status. Taken from this similar issue.
There isn’t really an API for it, because from usage perspective it is quite simple. If data passed to wp_insert_post() has publish or future value in post_status field and date in the future then it is inserted in database with that date and future in post_status. Effectively it is already considered scheduled. However something would … Read more
You don’t really need a Plugin to define these type of cronjobs in a timely manner. All you need to do is to reliably call the WordPress Cron file which is wp-cron.php The question is if your Webhost allows you to start wget without any path command or if it’s allowed to start it anyway. … Read more
After clicking [publish] once or twice, the permalink fixes itself automagically; I didn’t see it before because I didn’t want to save with the “wrong” permalink.
Problems with cron
You can also disable the auto wp-cron from loading and setup a manual cron job on your server. Add the following line to your Wp-config.php define(‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’, true); and then on your server/control panel create a cron job to run the following: wget http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1 I run mine every 5 minutes.