Schedule content updates for any WordPress page or post type.
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….
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
| WordPress | 6.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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