PublishPress Future Pro schedules changes to WordPress posts, pages, and other post types. Set an action date while editing content, apply dates through Quick Edit or Bulk Edit, or build a workflow for actions that happen at several points in a content lifecycle.

What can a scheduled action change?

At the scheduled date, an action can change a post to Draft or Private, send it to the Trash, or delete it. You can also turn the sticky-post setting on or off. Category actions can replace existing categories, add categories while keeping the existing ones, or remove specified categories while keeping the rest. The Pro edition can move content to a custom status, including statuses provided by other add-ons.

How can processes handle changes over time?

Action Workflows combine multiple steps and schedules. For example, you can email the site administrator when a post is updated, move a post to Trash one week after publication, or change it to Draft and add a category 15 days after publication. A workflow can also email the author a year after publication to request a content review.

Where can the action date come from?

Choose an action and date in the Future panel in the editing sidebar, or update dates in Quick Edit and Bulk Edit. In Future > Post Types, you can choose defaults for each enabled post type. Turn on “Automatically make actions” if new content of that type should receive an action automatically.

Pro Metadata Scheduling can take the action date and other action details from metadata supplied by Advanced Custom Fields or another extension. The fields can specify whether an action is enabled, its date and type, and the taxonomy name and term IDs used for category changes. For imports, utilities such as WP All Import can map their columns to the selected metadata fields so imported posts arrive with Future Actions set.

How can you notify readers and keep a record?

Email notifications can report when content changes; configure them under Future > Notifications. PublishPress Future Pro also logs which post an action affected, what changed, and when. To display an action or expiry date to readers, enable the footer show or place a shortcode in the content and choose its date format.

What runs the scheduled actions?

Scheduled changes are stored in Action Scheduler, which usually processes its queue through WP-Cron. If an action does not run, check whether WP-Cron is running. A website that intentionally disables WP-Cron can process the queue with Action Scheduler’s async runner or WP-CLI.

Getting started

Install and activate PublishPress Future Pro in WordPress. Enable the post types you use under Future > Post Types, then set defaults if needed. To schedule an individual change, open the content, choose an action and date in the Future panel, and save it. For a multi-step process, create an Action Workflow; configure notifications and metadata integrations in their respective settings.