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<p>Easily create a link to another post using a shortcode to reference the post by id or slug; the link text is the post’s title, unless overridden.</p>
<p>When writing your posts, you can refer to other posts either by ID, like so:</p>
<pre><code>[post2post id="20"]
</code></pre>
<p>or by the post slug/name, like so:</p>
<pre><code>[post2post id="hello-world"]
</code></pre>
<p>When viewed on your site, the post-to-post link tag is replaced with a permalink to the post you’ve referenced. By default, the text of the link will be the referenced post’s title, resulting in something like:</p>
<pre><code>"<a href="http://example.com/archives/2005/04/01/hello-world/" title="Hellow World!">Hello World!</a>"
</code></pre>
<p>You can optionally customize the link text by specifying a <code>text=""</code> attribute and value to the post-to-post link tag:</p>
<pre><code>Check out [post2post id="hello-world"]my first post[/post2post].
</code></pre>
<p>Which yields:</p>
<pre><code>Check out "<a href="http://example.com/archives/2011/07/01/hello-world/" title="Hello World!">my first post</a>".
</code></pre>
<p>The plugin provides its own admin options page via <code>Settings</code> -> <code>Post2Post</code> in the WordPress admin. Here you can define text that you want to appear before and/or after each post-to-post substitution, and if you want to enable legacy tag support. The plugin’s admin page also provides some documentation.</p>
<p>Links: <a href="http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/post-to-post-links/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Homepage</a> | <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-post-to-post-links/" rel="ugc">Plugin Directory Page</a> | <a href="https://github.com/coffee2code/post-to-post-links/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> | <a href="http://coffee2code.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Author Homepage</a></p>
<h3>Examples</h3>
<p>These are all valid ways to reference another of your posts on the same blog.</p>
<ul>
<li><code>[post2post id="25"]</code></li>
<li><code>[post2post id="25"/]</code></li>
<li>`[post2post id=”the-best-post-ever”]</li>
<li>`[post2post id=”the-best-post-ever”/]</li>
</ul>
<p>Assuming all of the above were used to reference the same post, the replacement for the post-to-post shortcut would be:</p>
<pre><code>"<a href="http://example.com/2011/07/01/the-best-post-ever" title="The Best Post Ever!">The Best Post Ever!</a>"
</code></pre>
<p>For any of the above you can also optionally wrap the shortcode around text. If so defined, that text will be used as the link text as opposed to the referenced post’s title.</p>
<ul>
<li><code>[post2post id="25"]this post[/post2post]</code></li>
<li><code>[post2post id="blog-anniversary"]Congratulate me![/post2post]</code></li>
</ul>
<p>The first of which would produce:</p>
<pre><code>"<a href="http://example.com/2011/07/01/the-best-post-ever" title="The Best Post Ever!">this post</a>"
</code></pre>
<p>You can also optionally definte the text that appears before and after the generated links. By default these are quotes.</p>
<ul>
<li>`[post2post id=”25″ before=” ” after=”!”]</li>
</ul>
<p>Yields:</p>
<pre><code> <a href="http://example.com/2011/07/01/the-best-post-ever" title="The Best Post Ever!">this post</a>!<h3>Legacy</h3>
</code></pre>
<p>The legacy syntaxes — which are disabled by default and not recommended for use unless you’ve used version of the plugin earlier than v3.0 — allow you to refer to other posts by ID using a pseudo-shortcode syntax or an HTML comment syntax, like so:</p>
<pre><code>[post="20"] or ``
</code></pre>
<p>or by the post slug/name, like so:</p>
<pre><code>[post="hello-world"] or `.`
</code></pre>
<p>The HTML comment notation was the original syntax employed by earlier versions of this plugin (pre v2.0). While it is still supported, it is no longer the primary and recommended syntax. The pseudo-shortcode syntax was in use between v2.0 and v3.0 of the plugin.</p>
<p>NOTE: The HTML comment syntax notation does NOT play well with the visual (aka rich-text) editor in the WordPress admin.</p>
<p>Examples of old legacy syntax follow. Those that use the pseudo-shortcode syntax (i.e. <code>[post=25]</code>) only work if you’ve checked “Enable legacy pseudo-shortcode tag support?”. Those that use HTML comment notation (i.e. <code></code>) only work if you’ve checked “Enable legacy HTML comment-style tag support?”.</p>
<ul>
<li><code>[post=25]</code></li>
<li><code>[post="25"]</code></li>
<li><code>[post = "25"]</code></li>
<li><code>[post='25']</code></li>
<li><code>[post = '25']</code></li>
<li><code>[post="the-best-post-ever"]</code></li>
<li><code>[post = "the-best-post-ever"]</code></li>
<li><code>[post='the-best-post-ever']</code></li>
<li><code>[post = 'the-best-post-ever']</code></li>
<li><code></code></li>
<li><code></code></li>
<li><code></code></li>
<li><code></code></li>
<li><code></code></li>
<li><code></code></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> Only activate the legacy mode(s) that apply to your use of older versions of the plugin. If you started using the plugin at v3.0 or later, you should not activate either legacy mode.</p>
<h3>Filters</h3>
<p>The plugin exposes one filter for hooking. Typically, customizations utilizing this hook would be put into your active theme’s functions.php file, or used by another plugin.</p>
<p><strong>c2c_post2post_shortcode (filter)</strong></p>
<p>The ‘c2c_post2post_shortcode’ hook allows you to define an alternative to the default shortcode tag. By default the shortcode tag name used is ‘post2post’. It is recommended you only utilize this filter before making use of the plugin’s shortcode in posts and pages. If you change the shortcode tag name, then any existing shortcodes using an older name will no longer work (unless you employ further coding efforts).</p>
<p>Arguments:</p>
<ul>
<li>$shortcode (string)</li>
</ul>
<p>Example:</p>
<pre><code>/**
 *  Use a shorter shortcode: i.e. [p2p id="32"]
 *
 * @param string  $shortcode The default shortcode name.
 * @return string The new shortcode name.
 */
function change_post2post_shortcde( $shortcode ) {
    return 'p2p';
}
add_filter( 'c2c_post2post_shortcode', 'change_post2post_shortcde' );
</code></pre>

Post-to-Post Links

Easily create a link to another post using a shortcode to reference the post by id or slug; the link text is the post's title, unless overridden.

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PublishPress

<p>The PublishPress Future plugin allows you to schedule changes to posts, pages and other content types. With this plugin you can create automatic actions to unpublish, delete, trash, move a post to a new status and more. With the Pro version you can update your content using custom workflows with multiple steps and schedules.</p>
<p>Here’s an overview of what you can do with PublishPress Future:</p>
<ul>
<li>Select future action dates in the right sidebar when you are editing a post. This makes it very easy to schedule changes to your content.</li>
<li>Receive email notifications when Future makes changes to your content.</li>
<li>Build Action Workflows that allow you to update your content using custom workflows with multiple steps and schedules (available in the Pro version).</li>
<li>Control post changes via integrations with Advanced Custom Fields and other plugins (available in the Pro version).</li>
</ul>
<h3>PublishPress Future Pro</h3>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Upgrade to PublishPress Future Pro</strong><br />
  This plugin is the free version of the PublishPress Future plugin. The Pro version comes with all the features you need to schedule changes to your WordPress content. <a href="https://publishpress.com/future" title="PublishPress Future Pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to purchase the best plugin for scheduling WordPress content updates!</a></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>Options for Future Actions on Posts</h3>
<p>With PublishPress Future, you can configure actions that will happen automatically to your content. Here are the changes you can choose for your posts:</p>
<ul>
<li>Change the status to “Draft”.</li>
<li>Delete the post.</li>
<li>Send the post to the Trash.</li>
<li>Change the status to “Private”.</li>
<li>Enable the “Stick to the top of the blog” option.</li>
<li>Disable the “Stick to the top of the blog” option.</li>
<li>Remove all existing categories, and add new categories.</li>
<li>Keep all existing categories, and add new categories.</li>
<li>Keep all existing categories, except for those specified in this change.</li>
<li>Move the post to a custom status (available in the Pro version)</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/ways-to-expire-posts/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here for details on scheduling post changes</a>.</p>
<h3>Custom Workflows to Schedule Content Changes</h3>
<p>With PublishPress Future Pro, you can build Action Workflows. These allow you to update your content using custom workflows with multiple steps and schedules. Here are some examples of what you can do with Action Workflows:</p>
<ul>
<li>Email the site admin when a post is updated.</li>
<li>Change the post status to “Trash” a week after it was published.</li>
<li>15 days after the post is published, move the post to the “Draft” status and add a new category.</li>
<li>1 year after a post is published, send an email to the author asking them to check the content.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/workflows/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here for details on workflows for changes</a>.</p>
<h3>Display the Action Date in Your Content</h3>
<p>PublishPress Future allows you to place automatically show the expiry or action date inside your articles. The date will be added at the bottom of your post.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/footer-display/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see the Footer Display options</a>.</p>
<p>You can use shortcodes to show the expiration date inside your posts. You can customize the shortcode output with several formatting options.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/shortcodes-to-show-expiration-date/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see the shortcode options</a>.</p>
<h3>Choose Actions Defaults for Post Types</h3>
<p>PublishPress Future can support any post type in WordPress. Go to Settings > PublishPress Future > Defaults and you can choose default actions for each post type.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/defaults-for-post-types/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see the default options</a>.</p>
<h3>PublishPress Future Email Notifications</h3>
<p>The PublishPress Future plugin can send you email notifications when your content is changed. You can control the emails by going to Settings > PublishPress Future > General Settings.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/email-notifications/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see the notification options</a>.</p>
<h3>Integrations With Other Plugins</h3>
<p>In PublishPress Future Pro it is possible to schedule changes to your posts based on metadata. This makes it possible to integrate PublishPress Future with other plugins.  For example, you can create a date field in the Advanced Custom Fields plugin and use that to control the date for Future Actions.</p>
<p>When you are using an integration, there are five types of data that you can update in PublishPress Future:</p>
<ul>
<li>Action Status: This field specifies if the action should be enabled.</li>
<li>Action Date: This field stores the scheduled date for the action.</li>
<li>Action Type: This field stores the type of action that will be executed.</li>
<li>Taxonomy Name: The taxonomy name for being used when selecting terms.</li>
<li>Taxonomy Terms: A list of term’s IDs for being used by the action.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/metadata-scheduling/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see how to integrate Future with other plugins</a>.</p>
<h3>Import the Future Actions</h3>
<p>PublishPress Future Pro supports imports from external data sources. You can import posts and automatically create Future Actions associated with those posts.</p>
<p>The best approach is to use the Metadata Scheduling feature. If you’re using a plugin such as WP All Import, you can match up the import tables with the fields you have selected in the Metadata Scheduling feature.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/imports-and-metadata-scheduling/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see how to import data for Future Actions</a>.</p>
<h3>Details on How Post Changes Works</h3>
<p>For each expiration event, a custom cron job is scheduled. This can help reduce server overhead for busy sites. This plugin REQUIRES that WP-CRON is setup and functional on your webhost.  Some hosts do not support this, so please check and confirm if you run into issues using the plugin.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/scheduling-cron-jobs/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see the technical details for this plugin</a>.</p>
<h3>Logs for All Your Post Changes</h3>
<p>PublishPress Future Pro allows you to keep a detailed record of all the post updates. PublishPress Future records several key data points for all actions:</p>
<ul>
<li>The post that the action was performed on.</li>
<li>Details of the post update.</li>
<li>When the change was made to the post.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/action-logs/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see more about the logs feature</a>.</p>
<h3>Join PublishPress and get the Pro plugins</h3>
<p>The Pro versions of the PublishPress plugins are well worth your investment. The Pro versions have extra features and faster support. <a href="https://publishpress.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to join PublishPress</a>.</p>
<p>Join PublishPress and you’ll get access to these nine Pro plugins:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/authors" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Authors Pro</a> allows you to add multiple authors and guest authors to WordPress posts.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/blocks" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Blocks Pro</a> has everything you need to build professional websites with the WordPress block editor.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/capabilities" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Capabilities Pro</a> is the plugin to manage your WordPress user roles, permissions, and capabilities.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/checklists" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Checklists Pro</a> enables you to define tasks that must be completed before content is published.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/future" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Future Pro</a>  is the plugin for scheduling changes to your posts.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/permissions" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Permissions Pro</a>  is the plugin for advanced WordPress permissions.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/publishpress" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Planner Pro</a> is the plugin for managing and scheduling WordPress content.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/revisions" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Revisions Pro</a> allows you to update your published pages with teamwork and precision.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/series" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Series Pro</a> enables you to group content together into a series</li>
</ul>
<p>Together, these plugins are a suite of powerful publishing tools for WordPress. If you need to create a professional workflow in WordPress, with moderation, revisions, permissions and more… then you should try PublishPress.</p>
<h4>Bug Reports</h4>
<p>Bug reports for PublishPress Future are welcomed in our <a href="https://github.com/publishpress/publishpress-future" rel="nofollow ugc">repository on GitHub</a>. Please note that GitHub is not a support forum, and that issues that are not properly qualified as bugs will be closed.</p>


Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories

Makes it easy to schedule and expire posts within WordPress much appreciated.

Handy plugin

Great plugin


yes, it is an excellent plugin and recommended to download.



it needs one thing.



to redirect to another page or post.



thank you for saving our time.


excellent plugin


I need to update (or add in my case), a category to a post after a set period of time. With this plugin, it's fully automated, which is perfect. 


Great plugin to automate a required task.

PublishPress Future can make scheduled changes to your content. You can unpublish posts, move posts to a new status, update the categories, and more.

Post-to-Post Links vs Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories