Remote/scheduled publishing of an existing post at a past date

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  juju41 · Member · Jan 3, 2012 at 2:20 am

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  Hi,

  On wordpress.com, you can scheduled a post to be published at a date in a future. basic.
  What I want is schedule a post to publish a post in the future but with a past date (so chronology will be good).

  Is there a way to do this in an unattended manner / not manual ? either on wordpress.com or with a remote script (perl, php, …) ?

  Thanks a lot.
  Cheers,

  Julien

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 3, 2012 at 5:14 am

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  You could publish it in the past and have it set as a sticky post so that when it published, it would pop to the top of the main page. Then at some later date you could “unstick” it.

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  juju41 · Member · Jan 3, 2012 at 5:50 am

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  Sorry, maybe I didn’t explain well.

  I want, either on wordpress.com, either through a script (win/unix with scheduled tasks/crontab) be able to change the status of an article from draft to published at a defined date of the future while the date of the article is in the past.
  I don’t mind it being at the top or not.

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 3, 2012 at 6:27 am

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  You can’t do scripting, php etc on WordPress.COM – you would need to develop your own application and run it on another server somewhere to trigger the publish a post.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 3, 2012 at 6:33 am

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  This would have to be a wordpress.ORG thing. Most definitely can’t be done here.