[Resolved] Post scheduling in CRED

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[peterv-6]

I am wanting to enable users to schedule their posts to publish at a time in the future of their choice. This is easily done from the WP backend but I don't know how to achieve this from a front-end form.

Is this possible with WP-types?

if so can you suggest how would i go about achieving this?

kind regards

Peter

[Luo Yang]

Dear Peter,

Yes, it is possible within CRED + some custom PHP codes, you can try this:
1) Create a custom date field (expected publish date) with Types plugin
2) Create a CRED form with above date field, for your user to select the "expected publish date" value,
3) when user submit the form, use CRED action hook cred_save_data to update the post publish time as the field value of "expected publish date"
More help:
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/cred-api/#csd
This hook allows doing a custom action when post data is saved to database.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_update_post
This function updates posts (and pages) in the database. To work as expected, it is necessary to pass the ID of the post to be updated.