Title: Scheduling posts possible? Last modified: August 26, 2022 --- # Scheduling posts possible? * Resolved [thejokertm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thejokertm/) * (@thejokertm) * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduling-posts-possible/) * I was wondering if it is possible to schedule posts using the metadata attributes, I couldn’t get this to work, this is my YAML: * > — > title: Test pending taxonomy: category: – Blog post_tag: – pain – capitalism > custom_fields: post_status: “future” post_date: “2022-08-27 18:00:00” — * Is this possible? If so, what am I doing wrong? Thanks! Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * Plugin Author [vaakash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vaakash/) * (@vaakash) * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduling-posts-possible/#post-15953010) * Hi [@thejokertm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thejokertm/), * Thanks for using GIW. * What you have done should work. Behind the scenes, the plugin uses the `wp_insert_post` call to create a new post. * I’ll check further on this and update you. * Thanks, Aakash * Thread Starter [thejokertm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thejokertm/) * (@thejokertm) * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduling-posts-possible/#post-15953435) * Thank you! * I tried to have these attributes under custom fields and to just have them under the title. In both cases the post was immediately published. * Thread Starter [thejokertm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thejokertm/) * (@thejokertm) * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduling-posts-possible/#post-15953556) * One more thing I just thought of, maybe the YAML isn’t getting parsed correctly? I was getting this error before: * > **A YAML file cannot contain tabs as indentation at line 10** (near ” post_date: > 2022-08-27 18:00:00″). * So I removed the tabs and used white spaces to align the variables under “custom- fields”. Maybe this is related to the problem? * Plugin Author [vaakash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vaakash/) * (@vaakash) * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduling-posts-possible/#post-15954157) * Hi [@thejokertm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thejokertm/), * I looked at the code and scheduling post is not supported yet. Post date parameter is not recognized yet. * I’ll add support for this in the next version of the plugin. * Thanks, Aakash * Thread Starter [thejokertm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thejokertm/) * (@thejokertm) * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduling-posts-possible/#post-15954473) * Okay, got it. * Is there any way to have a post be in the “draft” state by default? * If I use the post_status variable to set my posts to draft when they upload, and then publish schedule them on WordPress, won’t they be set back to draft next time I pull changes? * I’m trying to find a workflow how I can edit and update my posts using a markdown editor, but schedule them with WordPress without having to change the post_status variable in the YAML manually for every published post. * Plugin Author [vaakash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vaakash/) * (@vaakash) * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduling-posts-possible/#post-15955333) * Hi [@thejokertm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thejokertm/), * The plugin gives priority to the settings on the markdown file. * So if the post was edited using WordPress admin, then upon pull from Github it will apply the change as in the markdown file since that is the source of truth. * You can make changes to the markdown file and initiate a pull from the plugin. * Once the feature to “schedule” posts is made available, I guess you would not need to change post status from drafts to publish. I understand the inconvienence, I’ll try to submit a fix in a couple of weeks. * Thanks, Aakash * Thread Starter [thejokertm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thejokertm/) * (@thejokertm) * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduling-posts-possible/#post-15958865) * I understand, thank you. I will do it like this for now, and I look forward to the next update! 🙂 * Plugin Author [vaakash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vaakash/) * (@vaakash) * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduling-posts-possible/#post-15971010) * Hi [@thejokertm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thejokertm/), * Post date support is added in version 1.5 * Please update to the new version. * You can set the post date like below. `post_date: 2022-11-29 09:23:16` * Thanks, Aakash * Thread Starter [thejokertm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thejokertm/) * (@thejokertm) * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduling-posts-possible/#post-15976784) * Hey Aakash, that’s amazing! Thank you! * I have a question about the typical workflow for scheduling posts with this plugin. * I set “post_status: future” and set the date using the “post_date” attribute. * After the date has passed and the post is published, I have to go back to the source md file and manually set the post_status to published, right? Otherwise, next time I sync, it will unpublish the posts. Is the correct way of doing it? * Plugin Author [vaakash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vaakash/) * (@vaakash) * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduling-posts-possible/#post-15977408) * Hi [@thejokertm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thejokertm/), * I tested this and the post is marked published when the post status is future and the post date is past the current date. * So there is no need to change the post status from future to published. * Thanks, Aakash * Thread Starter [thejokertm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thejokertm/) * (@thejokertm) * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduling-posts-possible/#post-15979974) * That’s perfect, thank you so much Aakash! 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