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Is there a way to meter the flow of posts? I would like to be able to make a lot of posts but not have them show immediately, but change to “open”

For instance. I would like to create 50 posts. One post shows up immediately, the next post shows up 30 minutes later, the next 30 minutes after that without me having to do anything manual. It would be nice to add more posts before that 50 runs out.

Is the only way to do this to manually set the time?

Is the only way to do this to manually set the time?

It’s the only way I know of.

You could probably write a few lines of SQL / PHP, but there is, as PXLated noted, no built-in support for that.

You could probably write a few liens of SQL / PHP

Ingmar, I was thinking about that and couldn’t figure a way you could do it. Of course I’m a novice at SQL/PHP but you’d first need a way to identify or select the 50 entries, then set the starting date/time and sequence through. The sequencing doesn’t sound too difficult but easily identifying the entries sounds like a problem without making it an extension or something. Your thoughts?

Yes, you nailed it, the identifying would be the main issue. Could be done via a custom status, I suppose, a special category, or even a date range. I’d then sort them by entry_id, meaning that earlier entries will be shown earlier, loop through the set and change the entry_date accordingly. Not exactly out of the box functionality, as I’ve said, but shouldn’t be too hard, either. I imagine an external script would do it.