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It’s really annoying when someone starts a sentence with “I want”, because it does sound self-centred. But it can’t be helped in this case.

I want a plugin that queues posts in WordPress and then publishes them at scheduled intervals. I should be able to write a post, hit publish and know that it will then drop into a queue and be pushed out at the set interval.

The point behind it is I could then write when I want, as many times as I want, and queue content up to go out every couple of days. It could be used with multiple authors, and done to make sure the content going out is balanced. It could randomly decide which post goes out so you never really know what’s going to go out until it does.

WordPress does have the built in “scheduled posts” feature, but the trouble there is you specifically have to pick a date and time to have the post go out. I don’t want that, I want to be able to just hit publish and then let the plugin handle all of the timing.

I did do a search for existing plugins, and I did come across the Automatic Post Scheduler, which is pretty similar to what I want. The difference though is it will basically utilize the scheduled timer on posts and just set it to a time that’s the next in the series. My goal is a plugin that doesn’t schedule them when created, rather queues them. This way multiple authors can post in a queue, it can equally distribute the posts out, and they can be shunted around in any order as we want.

Since I’ve been getting into the plugin development side of things with WordPress a lot more these past couple of months, I may give it a go and see if I can come up with something. I don’t want to reinvent the wheel if it already exists, but if it doesn’t then it’s good to give it a go.

We’ll see.