Comments on: Auto Schedule Posts

By: David

David — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:22:50 +0000

Tony,

I think the next fix is for me to add Chris’ fix into an official release. As for random posting: that was something I wanted to do when I first began development but it proved to be very difficult. I have an idea of how to implement it but it would not be as robust as what you are suggesting – letting users set a range for how many posts to publish. I think what I would be able to do is allow users to specify a target number to seed the random function so that the intervals would be random and the higher the seed the more posts would likely be published in a given day.

I’ll have to see if I have time to do that and get it deployed publicly.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:17:27 +0000

Great plug-in now with Chris Bells excellent fix, its cooking! to propel this plugin to the next level suggestion, if you could include a randomise post time ie you say want around 10 posts in a day and these are posted at random times would be great ie a humanising of it, easy, hard, next update? even taking it further that it randomises how many a day (between parameters you can set) so monday the plugin decides to post 6 at random times, 9 on tues at random times (so it decides when and how many) you just set the boundaries the plugin works out the detail (no restriction also, so you could set the per day higher if needed)

By: David

David — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:41:58 +0000

Thanks for that fix Chris. That probably explains the inconsistencies I have seen from time to time in the timezone calculations. I hadn’t been able to isolate the cause. I’ll get that into a new version as soon as I can.

As for the plugin homepage – that was a remnant of a site migration. You should be able to see it without a login now.

By: Chris Bell

Chris Bell — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:21:19 +0000

I just found a timezone bug… (version 2.2) and have a fix… The $tod calculation can wrap to a different day that is not expected when comparing with the $open and $close. my quick hack, add 3 lines and a var to the 4th:
[around line 112]
$open = mktime((double)$open[0],(double)$open[1]);
$close = mktime((double)$close[0],(double)$close[1]);
$bump = 0;
if ( (date(“H”) + get_option(‘gmt_offset’)) > 23 ) $bump = -24;
if ( (date(“H”) + get_option(‘gmt_offset’)) < 0 ) $bump = 24;
$tod = mktime(date(“H”) + get_option(‘gmt_offset’ + $bump),date(“i”));

Same change around line 293 for the admin page.

Also, the plugin homepage is broken… asks for an admin login.

Thanks for the great plugin!
Chris.

By: David

David — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:11:54 +0000

I may have to look at the timezone conversion again.

By: kor

kor — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:07:34 +0000

Yep, version 2.2.

By: David

David — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:04:54 +0000

Are you running the latest version of the plugin?

By: kor

kor — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:39:04 +0000

I discovered this plugin a few weeks ago and it perfectly suits my needs !

I really do hope you’ll update it from time to time, I find it so useful !

(A few problems running it on WP 3.2.1. By example the “We should be open to publish now” doesn’t work quite well.)

By: David

David — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:19:46 +0000

The update has now been deployed – you should be able to upgrade. I have created a blog for my various WordPress plugins and with this version the plugin homepage and support are moving to the new location – http://plugins.davidjmiller.org/auto-schedule-posts/

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:20:13 +0000

David

I just wanted to check on the ETA of that upgrade. I just installed it on a clients site not realizing that it wasn’t compatible with WP 3.0

Thanks