Title: Schedule
Last modified: November 13, 2017

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# Schedule

 *  Resolved [webfeat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webfeat/)
 * (@webfeat)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/schedule-11/)
 * hi
    Great plugin, have found it really useful so far 🙂
 * My question is based around the automatic replace using rules. Is it possible
   to run these on a schedule? at the moment it only fires when you click Publish/
   Update, I’ve recently imported a lot of articles via a feed and while they do
   show up as posts, with the correct category, they dont have the default image.
   
   If it were possible to run the rules on a schedule, it would update them via 
   the cronjob to save me having to manually run the rule after each update.

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Martin Stehle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hinjiriyo/)
 * (@hinjiriyo)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/schedule-11/#post-9681117)
 * That is not always possible due to the importing plugin. Some of them use the
   post creation function in a way to let QFI set the featured image; others of 
   them are written in a way to make it not possible to find out which image to 
   set as featured.
 * Which one are you using?
 *  Thread Starter [webfeat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webfeat/)
 * (@webfeat)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/schedule-11/#post-9681248)
 * Thanks for the reply.
 * I realise its not possible as you cant control 3rd party plugins. You have a 
   manual process where by rules can be set, for example I could do a process now
   to add in an image to all posts missing one. Im asking for that but on a schedule
   option, as well as manual.
    So I could, for example, setup a schedule to run 
   a rule I already setup, once a month to add images to all posts in cat X thats
   missing one, instead of manually having to login and run it (which is what I 
   do now).
 * The importer Im using is Ultimate CSV Importer Free by Smackcoders. The paid 
   for version will handle images, the free version does not. Your plugin is great,
   and I can fix this limitation but if I could automate it, it would be even better
   🙂
 *  Plugin Contributor [Martin Stehle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hinjiriyo/)
 * (@hinjiriyo)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/schedule-11/#post-9681353)
 * I took a look in the code of your importer plugin. I do not see a chance of your
   requested feature, sorry.
 *  Thread Starter [webfeat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webfeat/)
 * (@webfeat)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/schedule-11/#post-9681407)
 * I think you are misunderstanding
    Im not asking you to look at another persons
   plugin and make adjustments. Im asking if you can change your own plugin, so 
   if I set up a rule, in your plugin, that the rule can be run as a cron job later.
   This has nothing to do with other peoples plugins.
 * In the Preset Featured Images area of your plugin, I have 3 types setup, that
   fire when the Save button is pressed on an article. Can you add, as a feature,
   a chance to schedule this instead of it only firing when the save button is pressed?
   instead it goes through all posts, or all posts in a certain category etc.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Martin Stehle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hinjiriyo/)
 * (@hinjiriyo)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/schedule-11/#post-9681664)
 * Ok, I am understanding your question. I will look for solutions.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Martin Stehle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hinjiriyo/)
 * (@hinjiriyo)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/schedule-11/#post-9725360)
 * How often do you want the scheduler to look for new posts without featured images?
   Weekly, daily, twice a day, hourly?
 *  Plugin Contributor [Martin Stehle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hinjiriyo/)
 * (@hinjiriyo)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/schedule-11/#post-9794033)
 * Sorry to say that: I could not implement a scheduler because necessary functions
   like to download an image are not loaded under special circumstances. I have 
   to make a break. Somewhere in the future I will make a new approach.

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