Default Post Date and Time

Description

When you create a new post in WordPress, the publish date is set to ‘immediately’, this plugin allows you more control over this behaviour and set a date or time of your choosing.

For example, you can choose to have new posts scheduled for:

  • first Tuesday of next month at 5:30pm
  • next Monday at 09:00
  • Friday at 19:30

Any format that PHP’s (strtotime)[http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.php] function can understand can be used.

Settings are on a per user basis, just go to your profile page!

This code is released under the GPL v2, see license.txt for details.

Change Log

1.3.1

  • Release date: October 5, 2015
  • Added load_plugin_textdomain() call

1.3

  • Release date: October 2, 2015
  • Added translation. domain.
  • Fixed WP_Debug warning on profile screen.

1.2

  • Release date: May 15, 2015
  • Fixed WP_Debug warning on profile screen.
  • Fixed user id bug on profile screen.
  • Fixed user profile only displays if the user has edit privileges.

1.1

  • Release date: October 3, 2014
  • Fixed PHP warning when no post types had been excluded on new post creation.

1.0

  • Release date: October 3, 2014
  • Added some colour to the validation icons.
  • Added support for using the latest scheduled post to calculate the date from.
  • Added rate/review and page links to the plugin list.
  • Added exclusion for post types.
  • Fixed button styling on the profile page.

0.1

  • Release date: October 2, 2014
  • Initial release.

FAQ

I’m formatting a date/time that seems to be valid and works but when I hit the validate button it says its wrong?

The validate button uses JavaScript to do it’s work and JavaScript does not have a strtotime() function and so not all cases may be supported. If the configuration you have set is working as you expect you can safely ignore the validation errors.

Can I use non-English words in the date/time fields?

No, strtotime() does not support internationalization and therefore neither does this plugin.