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Publish Scheduled Entries on Time

For legacy reasons, Movable Type and Melody publish future or "scheduled posts" by way of a periodic task. In short, these means that periodically MT will checked to see if there are any entries with a Scheduled status that have come due, and then publish them. A side-effect of this is that in most cases an entry scheduled for 10:30 won't actually publish until 10:46 or 11:15, or even later (depending on your MT configuration and other periodic tasks).

But what if the post is time-sensitive, and you really want that post to live at 10:30?

This plugin aims to address this by creating a "TheSchwartz" job to publish the post. When the entry is saved, a job gets created for the entry, configured to run at desired publishing date and time. Combine this with running the run-periodic-tasks in daemon mode and scheduled posts should publish very close to the scheduled time.

FuturePost Job on GitHub

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Posted by Mark on August 18, 2010 3:30 PM |

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شات صوتي:

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Posted by شات صوتي | December 5, 2010 3:24 PM

Posted on December 5, 2010 15:24

كلام:

TheSchwartz" job to publish the post. When the entry is saved, a job gets created for

Posted by كلام | February 8, 2011 1:53 AM

Posted on February 8, 2011 01:53

دردشة كلام:

from G Wave, but it´s interesting and i think too, that bloggers will get

Posted by دردشة كلام | August 7, 2011 11:01 AM

Posted on August 7, 2011 11:01

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