TAO Schedule Update
Take a copy of an arbitrary post/page/cpt, change it and make it replace the original post at a given date and time in the future.
4.6(31 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 7 years agoAs of April 2026, TAO Schedule Update is a WordPress cron plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 31 reviews. It has been downloaded 59K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.7.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 23% this week. Top alternative: WP Crontrol.
4.6/531 reviews
2.0K+active installs
59K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
A simple WordPress Plugin to Schedule Content Updates
Motivation:
These days WordPress is scarcely used as a pure blog. Most of the time it is used as a full blown CMS with many additional requirements. Especially the publishing workflow for posts and pages as well as their changes becomes demanding. Using plugins like visual composer or advaced custom fields with their flexbox addon it becomes common to build huge startpages, subsites and langpages using a simple, understandable visual editor insted of bolting them together using custom post types. If this is a good and DRY way to go is not to discuss here 🙂
A Problem arises as soon as you try updating such a complex single page at a specific date in the future – there is no easy way so schedule changes to already published wordpr…
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by kmg27hotmailcom·1 year ago
I loved 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. When the plugin broke and seemed abandoned, I searched and searched for a replacement and couldn’t find any that would do the same thing until I found the Content Update Scheduler. It’s lightweight, easy to use, and works like Tao. Enjoy!
Great plugin, but appears to be abandoned
by internationaljack·4 years ago
I love this plugin. There are times when I need updates to happen when I’m off the clock, and TAO Schedule Update makes it relatively easy to do that. It’s not perfect, but it’s good enough.
The problem now is that it hasn’t been updated since 2018. The developer still appears to exist, but has moved on to bigger & better things. It would be wonderful if someone out there took up the mantle and made a new update-scheduler plugin. There doesn’t seem to be any other options that I can find.
Does exactly what you want
by KZeni·5 years ago
I’d love to see WordPress’ official revisions, scheduled publish dates, draft management, etc. be extended to allow for scheduled updates to already-published content. Until that comes to be, this is definitely the next best thing that does what you’d want it to. Bonus that it’s listed on GitHub for community support, suggestions, fixes, etc.
I’d think this plugin would get much more use & adoption if the listing was given a few refinements (the public plugin name isn’t all that friendly, doesn’t have an icon or banner, could use a few more screenshots [the animation is nice, though], etc.) That doesn’t really reflect the usefulness or quality of the plugin. Think it makes for why something so potentially useful for so many sites doesn’t have as many active sites using it at the moment.
Exactly what I was looking for, no more no less!
by Lukasz·5 years ago
I still can’t believe WordPress doesn’t have this sort of workflow!
I have tried multiple plugins(about 5ish) but none of them worked and were over-packed with features and confusing, I just wanted to schedule new content updates without bringing the current published page down!
Now I know this plugin is slightly abandoned and does not work with WP 5.0, but another DEV forked over this plugin and updated so it works on the newest WordPress and works with page-builders like elementor:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-update-scheduler/
He gives credit to the original plugin author. The plugin is practically identical besides some text changes so check it out if you want to continue using this sort of workflow.
The biggest improvement could be to the UI. When scheduling a content update, would be nice after you hit publish for some notification that your post update has been scheduled.
Great!
by EduAzevedo·6 years ago
The plugin is excellent, but I need to be updated. a good new feature is to allow post types to be updated as well
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.7.0+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.15
98.8%
Other
1.3%
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Changelog
1.15
- fix timezone issue in datepicker (thanks to joaquinjsb)
- add spanish translation (thanks to Manuel5cc and Julian Castro)
- fix typo in english text
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