Schedule Unpublish

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.

Screenshots

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

The post Unpublish Queue can be viewed under the Tools menu. — The schedule unpublish field is added as a meta box on the edit post screen.

Installation

Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
Use the Tools->Unpublish Queue screen to view posts in the queue to be unpublished.

FAQ

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.

Reviews

pk2000 May 23, 2025

Great plugin, does what it says on the tin.

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Contributors & Developers

“Schedule Unpublish” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Noah J. Stewart

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Changelog

0.1.0

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