[Plugin: Old Post Promoter (OPP)] Hey! can you add checkbox to Publish Pending Posts

just saw your plugin and I am going to try it out….

Right now there is no real solution for wordpress publishers that want to store a bunch of posts as Pending and have them published hourly or at other intervals..

I see in your code that you select the post to promote by looking at its status
AND post_status = ‘publish’

It would be real cool if you could just add pending and then people could store posts as pending and use your plugin to auto publish new posts vs retweet or promote older posts.

should be a very simple hack for you … and other features would also be possible to help in the aid of publishing new posts automatically…

Being able to Auto Publish Pending or Future Posts really is something that is needed in WordPress

You could split development and make a new plugin … but use 90% of your code.

For instance I read about 25 RSS Feeds into my site (feed wordpress plugin) … each feed may make up to 5 posts for the day so I endup with 125 posts that need to be published through out the day..

I have the option to hold them as pending then every morning manually edit each one’s publish time.

this is really annoying to do every morning

The only other option i have is to publish the posts in bursts of 5 or more when remote RSS Feeds are Read. Twitter chokes on this and throttles you so only 1 or 2 actually get tweeted..

I don’t know if your code can do this but it looks like it can handle everything if you are able to do Two things.

Allow selection of Pending vs Published
Allow Users to enter a time interval in minutes less then one hour …
should not be hard to add more time options such as 5min 15 30 60 120

also when is your hook fired????

After page load for visitor … is probably best that way they can see the page and the wp cron will fire to publish posts while they are reading the page.

Thanks!

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/old-post-promoter/