Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, D...

The PublishPress Future plugin allows you to schedule changes to posts, pages and other content types. With this plugin you can create automatic actions to unpublish, delete, trash, move a post to a new status and more. With the Pro version you can update your content using custom workflows with multiple steps and schedules.

Here’s an overview of what you can do with PublishPress Future:

• Select future action dates in the right sidebar when you are editing a post. This makes it very easy to schedule changes to your content.
• Receive email notifications when Future makes changes to your content.
• Build Action Workflows that allow you to update your content using custom workflows with multiple steps and schedules (available in the Pro version).
• Control post changes via integrations with Advanced Custom Fields and other plugins (available in the Pro version).

PublishPress Future Pro

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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 WordPress 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 (available in the Pro version)

Custom Workflows to Schedule Content Changes

With PublishPress Future Pro, you can build Action Workflows. These allow you to update your content using custom workflows with multiple steps and schedules. Here are some examples of what you can do with Action Workflows:

• Email the site admin when a post is updated.
• Change the post status to “Trash” a week after it was published.
• 15 days after the post is published, move the post to the “Draft” status and add a new category.
• 1 year after a post is published, send an email to the author asking them to check the content.

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.

You can use shortcodes to show the expiration date inside your posts. You can customize the shortcode output with several formatting options.

Choose Actions Defaults for Post Types

PublishPress Future can support any post type in WordPress. Go to Settings > PublishPress Future > Defaults and you can choose default actions for each post type.

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