Future Actions for Posts

The PublishPress Future plugin offers several actions that you can schedule for your posts. You can find these in the sidebar area of WordPress posts, as in this image below:

Future Dropdown

Change to a default status #

Three of the available options will change the status of your post.

  • Change status to Draft: move your post to the “Draft” status.
  • Change status to Private: move your post to the “Private” status.
  • Change status to Trash: move your post to the “Trash” tab.

Delete the post entirely #

This next option is only to be used with extreme caution:

  • Delete: completely remove the post from your site.

Change the Sticky option #

Two of the options will change an option on your post:

  • Stick: Enable the “Stick to the top of the blog” option.
  • Unstick: Disable the “Stick to the top of the blog” option.

Change the Categories #

Three of the options will modify the terms on your post:

  • Add extra terms: keep all existing taxonomy terms, and also add new terms.
  • Remove all terms: remove all existing taxonomy terms.
  • Remove selected terms: keep all existing taxonomy terms, except for those specified in this change.
  • Replace all terms: keep all existing taxonomy terms, except for those specified in this change.

Change the Custom Status (Pro version) #

PublishPress Future Pro allows you to change the status of a post to any custom status registered in WordPress.