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Plugin info

Total downloads: 376,783
Active installs: 70,000
Total reviews: 27
Average rating: 4.4
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 4/29/2025 (246 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 9/7/2016 (9 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 4.2
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 7.0

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Stale • Last updated 246 days ago • 27 reviews

44/100

Is Scheduled Post Trigger abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 246 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 4.2
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 7.0

Ratings

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Developers

Jennifer Moss (Owner)2

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Description

When a visitor loads your site, this lightweight script checks to see if any scheduled posts have been missed. If so, it publishes them immediately.

Installation

  1. Go to Plugins, Add New, Upload Plugin.
  2. Upload the ZIP file.
  3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress

NOTE: Make sure that your timezone is set correctly in Settings->General.

Frequently Asked Questions

How often does it check missed posts?

Every time someone loads your your home page or a single post/article.

I’ve activated the plugin-and the posts are not publishing

Make sure your time zone is set correctly. Make sure there are no plugin conflicts by turning off your other plugins, one by one. Especially caching plugins.

The plugin is giving the site a memory error or white screen

If your database has a significant number of scheduled posts (over 10k) or you have heavy traffic, then you might not have enough memory allocated to WordPress. You can try adding this line in your wp_config.php file:

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M');

If you’re still having memory problems, then talk to your web host about your root problem: the built-in WordPress Cron Scheduler is not publishing your scheduled posts.

Review feed

Tim
11/30/2019

The Plugin We Really Shouldn't Need

I have used this plugin for a couple of years without any issues. Without it, WordPress misses posts all the time. I don't understand why this functionality isn't built into WordPress, but I am thankful for the developer.

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Changelog

3.2

Rename plugin with company branding. Tested to WP 6.3

3.1

Fixes bug where it wasn’t finding all custom post types compatible with other plugins.

3.0

Optimizes database call to use index. Will check post type=post, page, and any custom post types like portfolio, recipe, testimonial, etc.

2.21

Fixes bug in date/time algorithm.

2.2

Reduces database interaction by limiting the call to home page and blog post headers only.

2.1

Reverting code to match 1.8 until we can do further testing.

2.0

Makes significant change to plugin so it only checks once per visitor, per session instead of each page load. Less taxing on database.

1.8

Tightened up code. Will not go into the publish loop unless there is a missed post.

1.7

Small change to integrate with WP posting function.

1.0

  • Initial release
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