How to enable author to view their scheduled posts?

  • Hello,

    I was wondering how authors can view their own post when it’s not yet scheduled?
    Basically, I have a plugin installed for automated emails to notify an author when his/her post has been scheduled, with the permalink.

    However, the author cannot view it.

    I saw this thread but found it difficult to understand.

    Any help?
    Would appreciate it.

    Thank you!

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  • You’re going to need to do some coding to do that.

    The second answer on that StackExchange question (the one marked as correct) tricks WordPress into thinking that the post has been published when it hasn’t. It claims to not actually publish the post (and it doesn’t appear to do so, but I have not tested the solution).

    There are a couple of options for adding code snippets (short pieces of code) to your WordPress installation.
    – Using a code snippet plugin (which is unlikely to work in this case);
    – Adding the code to your theme’s functions.php file (you need access to your host’s panel / FTP to be able to do this);
    – Adding the code to a MU plugin (you need access to your host’s panel / FTP to be able to do this and you need to follow the right format for the file, which you can create in a text editor like Notepad, saving it as a .php extension).

    In short, this isn’t hard for a junior developer to do, but it is quite a steep learning curve if you have never coded.

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