Description

Scheduled Content Dashboard gives you a clean view of everything queued up for publication. It adds a dashboard widget grouping scheduled content by when it’s due, a full editorial calendar page where you can drag posts to different days, flags posts WordPress failed to publish on time, and quietly republishes them for you.

Most scheduling plugins bolt on social sharing, complex settings, and marketing upsells. This one doesn’t. It shows what’s scheduled, lets you reshuffle it, and keeps it publishing. That’s it.

Features

Full editorial calendar page — full-screen month grid with drag-and-drop rescheduling (time of day preserved)
Dashboard widget — scheduled content grouped by Today, Tomorrow, This Week, Next Week, and Later
Mini calendar view — switch the widget to a month grid with dots on days that have scheduled posts
Missed-schedule detection — posts stuck in future status past their date are flagged in red
Auto-fix missed schedules — quietly republishes stuck posts on admin page loads (most competitors gate this in a paid tier)
One-click “Publish now” — manually push any missed post live from the widget
Admin bar counter — see how many posts are scheduled (and if any are missed) from anywhere in the admin
Optional email digest — daily or weekly summary of missed + upcoming posts to any recipients
REST API — endpoints for scheduled, missed, counts, publish-now, and reschedule
Post type + author filters — drill down inside the widget without leaving the dashboard
“Mine only” toggle — multi-author sites can filter the widget to the current user’s content
Drafts in widget (optional) — show drafts alongside scheduled items
Settings page — configure item limit, which post types to include, default view, auto-fix, and digest
All public post types — posts, pages, products, events, custom post types
Privacy-friendly — no tracking, no external requests, no cookies

Use cases

Editorial teams managing a content calendar
Bloggers scheduling posts in advance
Agencies juggling multiple client sites
Anyone frustrated by WordPress missing scheduled publish times

Privacy

This plugin does not collect data, send data to external servers, use cookies, or track users. Everything displayed is already in your WordPress database.

Developer hooks

scheduled_content_dashboard_query_args — filter the WP_Query args used for the scheduled content list.

scheduled_content_dashboard_auto_fix_missed — return `false` to disable the auto-publish of missed scheduled posts.

REST API

Base namespace: scheduled-content-dashboard/v1. All endpoints require a logged-in user with the edit_posts capability.

GET /scheduled — list scheduled posts (query args: post_type, author, limit)
GET /missed — list missed scheduled posts
GET /counts — return { total, scheduled, missed }
POST /publish/{id} — publish a scheduled post now
POST /reschedule/{id} — change a scheduled post’s publish date (body: date in any format strtotime() understands)

Screenshots

The Scheduled Content widget grouping posts by when they’re due

Installation

Go to Plugins > Add New in your WordPress admin
Search for “Scheduled Content Dashboard”
Click Install Now, then Activate
Visit your Dashboard to see the widget

FAQ

Where does the widget appear?

On your main WordPress admin dashboard. You can drag it to reposition it among your other widgets.

What content types are displayed?

All public post types: posts, pages, and any custom post type registered as public (products, events, portfolios, etc.).

What is a “missed schedule”?

WordPress uses wp-cron to publish scheduled posts at their designated time. If cron doesn’t fire (low traffic sites, server cron issues, fatal errors), posts stay stuck in future status past their publish date. This plugin detects those posts, flags them, and by default auto-publishes them next time you load an admin page.

How do I disable auto-fix?

Add this to your theme’s functions.php or a mu-plugin:

add_filter( 'scheduled_content_dashboard_auto_fix_missed', '__return_false' );

You’ll still see missed posts flagged in the widget with a manual “Publish now” button.

How many scheduled items are shown?

Up to 50 per group, ordered by scheduled date (soonest first).

Does this work with Gutenberg / the block editor?

Yes. The plugin displays scheduled content and links to standard edit screens — editor-agnostic.

Does this work with Multisite?

Yes. Each site has its own widget showing that site’s scheduled content.

The widget isn’t showing — what now?

Confirm the plugin is activated
Confirm you have scheduled content (posts with future publish dates)
On the Dashboard, click Screen Options at the top and make sure “Scheduled Content” is ticked

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Contributors & Developers

“Scheduled Content Dashboard” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

2.0.8

Editorial calendar: uniform faint borders around every day cell, cleaner outer grid, removed the separator line under the legend.

2.0.7

Dashboard widget switching view, toggling “Mine only”, or applying filters no longer reloads the whole page — swaps content in place.
Fresh installs now default to the Post type only. Page, Media, and CPTs are unchecked by default.
Settings page now lives under Scheduled Settings (was jumping to WP Settings). Old URL redirects automatically.
Editorial calendar: softer day-of-week header, legend has room to breathe.

2.0.6

Changed: Editorial calendar visual redesign — solid dark header row, proper 1px borders on every cell, today cell gets a blue top-bar marker, weekends lightly shaded, other-month days clearly faded, missed days highlighted red
Added: Legend below the calendar showing Scheduled / Missed / Today
Changed: Item hover states for clearer interactivity

2.0.5

Changed: Admin bar counter now links to the full editorial calendar page instead of the dashboard widget
Fixed: Editorial calendar row heights were variable; each day cell is now a fixed 140px and caps at 3 visible items with a “+N more” indicator

2.0.4

Fixed: Editorial calendar row heights were variable depending on how many posts were scheduled per day (superseded by 2.0.5)

2.0.3

Changed: Widget item limit default lowered from 15 to 7 — keeps the widget tight by default, power users can raise it from settings

2.0.2

Changed: Shortened the wp.org short description to fit the 150-character cap (previously truncated on import)

2.0.1

Changed: Widget item limit default lowered from 50 to 15 — the dashboard widget no longer balloons to full height on sites with a heavy schedule
Added: “+N more scheduled — open full calendar” footer link in the widget when there are more scheduled items than the display limit

2.0.0

Added: Full editorial calendar admin page with drag-and-drop rescheduling (jQuery UI)
Added: Top-level “Scheduled” menu with Calendar and Settings submenus
Added: REST API (scheduled-content-dashboard/v1) with scheduled, missed, counts, publish, reschedule endpoints
Added: Optional email digest (daily or weekly) sent at 9am local time, configurable recipients
Added: “Open full calendar” link in the widget header
Changed: Deactivation cleanly unschedules the digest cron event

1.2.0

Added: Settings page (Settings > Scheduled Content) for item limit, included post types, default view, drafts, auto-fix toggle
Added: Mini month calendar view with per-user preference, dots for days with scheduled posts, missed-day highlighting, and day detail
Added: Post type + author filter dropdowns in the widget (collapsible)
Added: Optional drafts group alongside scheduled content
Added: “List / Calendar” view switcher per user
Changed: Auto-fix now also respects the settings UI toggle in addition to the filter

1.1.0

Added: Missed-schedule detection with red flagging in the widget
Added: Auto-fix missed scheduled posts (admin-page-load cron, filterable)
Added: One-click “Publish now” button for missed posts
Added: Admin bar counter showing scheduled + missed post counts
Added: “Mine only” toggle to filter the widget by current user
Added: scheduled_content_dashboard_auto_fix_missed filter
Changed: Scheduled items query skips missed posts (they render in their own group)

1.0.0

Initial release
Dashboard widget with grouped scheduled content
Support for all public post types

Description

Features

Use cases

Privacy

Developer hooks

REST API

Screenshots

Installation

FAQ

Where does the widget appear?

What content types are displayed?

What is a “missed schedule”?

How do I disable auto-fix?

How many scheduled items are shown?

Does this work with Gutenberg / the block editor?

Does this work with Multisite?

The widget isn’t showing — what now?