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Content Update Scheduler

Schedule content updates for any WordPress page or post type.

By Constantin Oesterling·Update·Free
4.3(12 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 3 months ago
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As of April 2026, Content Update Scheduler is a WordPress update plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 38K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Downloads are down 20% this week. Top alternative: MainWP Child – Securely Connects to the….

4.3/512 reviews
2.0K+active installs
38K+total downloads
6 yearssince 2020

Overview

WordPress lacks the ability to schedule content updates. Keeping your posts and pages up to date manually can often be a waste of valuable time, especially when you know you’ll need to update the same page again soon.

Use Cases

  • Promotions: Automatically publish versions of your pages that contain temporary promotions and schedule content updates that remove these promotions once they expire.
  • Events: Schedule content updates for pages that list events. Automatically publish an updated version of the page after an event ends.
  • SEO: Schedule series of content updates to keep your pages and publishing dates current and satisfy the freshness algorithm.

Key Features

  • Updates page content and publishing date
  • Compatible with any post type
  • Compatible with Elementor and Oxygen Builder
  • Nested…
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Ratings & Reviews

4.312 reviews
5 ★
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Recent Reviews

Great plugin
by Roberto Rodríguez·4 months ago

I’ve been using this free plugin for years on a commercial website built with Divi, and it has been very useful. Quick response for support inquiries, too.

Fast Response Support
by mkormendy·5 months ago

This was the fastest support response that I’ve had in a long time from a plug-in on the WordPress plug-ins repository!

Albeit, I did manage to describe the issue quite succinctly and specifically that it wasn’t difficult to assess/reproduce and turn around a fix.

Great collaboration! Thank you!

Best Post/Page Scheduler Plugin
by jolai·7 months ago

We originally had trouble getting this plugin to work with our custom Gutenberg site, but the developer support was excellent. They worked with us closely to resolve the issues, and now the plugin runs exactly as intended. Other scheduling plugins we tried caused conflicts or broke parts of our site, but this one has been stable and reliable once set up properly. Highly recommend it if you need a scheduling solution with great developer support behind it.

Didn’t work
by tianaina·11 months ago·1 reply

Sorry, it didn’t work.
I couldn’t even plan the updates because no link appeared on the posts after installing and activating the plugin.

Plugin has been updated and works perfectly
by kmg27hotmailcom·1 year ago·2 replies

I was a big fan of the Tao Schedule Update plugin and used it for years to schedule multiple changes to the same already-published page on a website I manage. For example, a livestream feed goes up on a page on the site at 9 a.m., comes down at 10 a.m., and a different livestream embed goes up at 11 a.m. When the Tao plugin broke, I searched and searched for a replacement and couldn’t find any that would do multiple, successive changes to the same page. Some would only do one change, one stripped out my <iframe> code when it published, one published immediately even though I had scheduled the change, one forced a whole publishing approval process that I didn’t need. If you miss the Tao plugin, then Content Update Scheduler is what you are searching for. It’s lightweight, simple, easy to use, and works exactly as you would expect. Enjoy!

Download Trends

Today: 18Yesterday: 11This week: 113Period total: 17K

Compatibility

WordPress6.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHP7.4+ required

Version Adoption

v4.0
53.9%
v2.3
25.4%
v1.0
12.8%
v3.1
8.0%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

4.0.2

  • feat: Add overdue event recovery
  • fix: Capability checks with proper fallbacks when post type object is unavailable
  • fix: Enhanced meta cleanup to prevent schedule timestamp inheritance
  • fix: Improve scheduled homepage changes reliability and backwards compatibility
  • fix: Plugin Check errors resolved
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Constantin OesterlingConstantin Oesterling
Plugin Info
Version
4.0.2
Last Updated
Dec 27, 2025
WP Requires
6.0+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
7.4+
Active Installs
2.0K+
Downloads
38K+
Added
Apr 1, 2020
Business
Free

Tags

updateschedulerepublishschedulingpublication

Developer

C
Constantin Oesterling
3 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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