Jean

<p>Scheduled Content Dashboard gives you a clean view of everything queued up for publication. It adds a dashboard widget grouping scheduled content by when it’s due, a full editorial calendar page where you can drag posts to different days, flags posts WordPress failed to publish on time, and quietly republishes them for you.</p>
<p>Most scheduling plugins bolt on social sharing, complex settings, and marketing upsells. This one doesn’t. It shows what’s scheduled, lets you reshuffle it, and keeps it publishing. That’s it.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Full editorial calendar page</strong> — full-screen month grid with drag-and-drop rescheduling (time of day preserved)</li>
<li><strong>Dashboard widget</strong> — scheduled content grouped by Today, Tomorrow, This Week, Next Week, and Later</li>
<li><strong>Mini calendar view</strong> — switch the widget to a month grid with dots on days that have scheduled posts</li>
<li><strong>Missed-schedule detection</strong> — posts stuck in <code>future</code> status past their date are flagged in red</li>
<li><strong>Auto-fix missed schedules</strong> — quietly republishes stuck posts on admin page loads (most competitors gate this in a paid tier)</li>
<li><strong>One-click “Publish now”</strong> — manually push any missed post live from the widget</li>
<li><strong>Admin bar counter</strong> — see how many posts are scheduled (and if any are missed) from anywhere in the admin</li>
<li><strong>Optional email digest</strong> — daily or weekly summary of missed + upcoming posts to any recipients</li>
<li><strong>REST API</strong> — endpoints for scheduled, missed, counts, publish-now, and reschedule</li>
<li><strong>Post type + author filters</strong> — drill down inside the widget without leaving the dashboard</li>
<li><strong>“Mine only” toggle</strong> — multi-author sites can filter the widget to the current user’s content</li>
<li><strong>Drafts in widget (optional)</strong> — show drafts alongside scheduled items</li>
<li><strong>Settings page</strong> — configure item limit, which post types to include, default view, auto-fix, and digest</li>
<li><strong>All public post types</strong> — posts, pages, products, events, custom post types</li>
<li><strong>Privacy-friendly</strong> — no tracking, no external requests, no cookies</li>
</ul>
<h4>Use cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Editorial teams managing a content calendar</li>
<li>Bloggers scheduling posts in advance</li>
<li>Agencies juggling multiple client sites</li>
<li>Anyone frustrated by WordPress missing scheduled publish times</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy</h4>
<p>This plugin does not collect data, send data to external servers, use cookies, or track users. Everything displayed is already in your WordPress database.</p>
<h4>Developer hooks</h4>
<pre><code>scheduled_content_dashboard_query_args — filter the WP_Query args used for the scheduled content list.

scheduled_content_dashboard_auto_fix_missed — return `false` to disable the auto-publish of missed scheduled posts.
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<h4>REST API</h4>
<p>Base namespace: <code>scheduled-content-dashboard/v1</code>. All endpoints require a logged-in user with the <code>edit_posts</code> capability.</p>
<ul>
<li><code>GET /scheduled</code> — list scheduled posts (query args: <code>post_type</code>, <code>author</code>, <code>limit</code>)</li>
<li><code>GET /missed</code> — list missed scheduled posts</li>
<li><code>GET /counts</code> — return <code>{ total, scheduled, missed }</code></li>
<li><code>POST /publish/{id}</code> — publish a scheduled post now</li>
<li><code>POST /reschedule/{id}</code> — change a scheduled post’s publish date (body: <code>date</code> in any format <code>strtotime()</code> understands)</li>
</ul>


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