Title: need clarification – email subscribers – future dated posts
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# need clarification – email subscribers – future dated posts

 *  [doubledubs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doubledubs/)
 * (@doubledubs)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-clarification-email-subscribers-future-dated-posts/)
 * Does anyone know how to get subscribe2 to work with future dated posts (e-mail
   subscriber list when the post is published on the appointed date and time).
 * I’ve been trying to get Skippy’s subscribe2 to work with future dated posts (
   it was supposed to work with future dated posts as of a prievious version. I 
   am on the current version (2.2.2) and WP 2.02, so everything is up to date. I
   am also running wp-cron 1.4 (latest) as stated by skippy as required for future
   dated psots to be sent by e-mail. Posts published at the current time staamp 
   are immediately sent out, so I know subscribe2 is working.
 * WP-cron’s sip file comes with several other plug-ins. I have no idea if any of
   these are necesary to make the subscribe2 work.
 * Skippy included a wp-cron-reminder to test if wp-cron is working. It is.
 * any ideas? Thanks!!!
 * Edit*** Or does anyone know of another plugin to e-mail subscribers future dated
   posts if you don’t know how to make this one work? [ (like PW email notification)](http://watershedstudio.com/portfolio/software/wp-email-notification.html)

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 *  Thread Starter [doubledubs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doubledubs/)
 * (@doubledubs)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-clarification-email-subscribers-future-dated-posts/#post-368978)
 * I’m going to leave this unresolved for now, but here’s what I think the problem
   is. If anyone else has experienced this, let me know. In the meantime, I’ll have
   this fully tested by April 16, 2006. Since it’s on a live blog, I can’t really
   run test posts.
 * The very strange thing about this problem was that the plug-ins (subscribe2 with
   wp-cron) worked perfectly on my test site. When ported to the production site,
   it stopped working.
 * **Solution:**
    It appears that future dated posts that were written prior to 
   the installation of wp-cron will not be recognized by the susbscribe2 and wp-
   chron plug-ins for e-mail distribution. I can’t figure out why this would be,
   but when I create a new post or a new future dated post, each one e-mails shortly
   after the publish date/time. The exceptions are posts I wrote prior to the installation
   of subscribe2 and wp-cron.
 * In order to get everything notifying subscribers by e-mail, I think if I edit
   each post (add a few words and re-save), those posts will then e-mail to the 
   distribution list. I’ll let you all know next week.
 *  Thread Starter [doubledubs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doubledubs/)
 * (@doubledubs)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-clarification-email-subscribers-future-dated-posts/#post-368983)
 * Well, most of my previous suspicions were correct. WP-cron and subscribe2 are
   only e-mailing posts that were published after the plug-ins were installed.
 * Originally, I wanted to re-save all my future dated posts. This has not worked.
   If I want my posts for the next few weeks e-mailed, I’ll need to copy them into
   a new post and delete the old one. Oh well.
 * If anyone else ever has this problem, hope this helps.

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