Schedule Unpublish

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Schedule Unpublish

by Noah J. Stewart

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Description

A plugin to schedule an unpublish date and time field when editing posts. A scheduled task runs hourly in the background to update the post status.

  1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
  3. Use the Tools->Unpublish Queue screen to view posts in the queue to be unpublished.
  1. The schedule unpublish field is added as a meta box on the edit post screen.

    The schedule unpublish field is added as a meta box on the edit post screen.

  2. The post Unpublish Queue can be viewed under the Tools menu.

    The post Unpublish Queue can be viewed under the Tools menu.

Does this plugin also schedule publishing a post?

No, this functionality is already built into WordPress. You can do this by scheduling the post date in the future.

Does 1 thing

By pk2000 on May 23, 2025

Great plugin, does what it says on the tin.

0.1.0

  • Release

Initial release.

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