Newbie problem – can’t schedule a post for future

  • Resolved mistyfog

    (@mistyfog)


    7 years, 5 months ago

    I am using WP 4.8 and Postie 1.8.44. My I setup the IMAP-SSL link to a gmail account – and I can mail a post successfully. I put the category in the subject, along with title. So far so good.

    In the body of the message, I have a simple plain text message.
    I want the post to be scheduled for a specific future date – and I can’t seem to get this part working. My message body looks like:

    testing text – party’s over
    ~author unknown

    status: future
    date: Aug 1, 2017

    I feel like there is something basic I’m missing here. Any help would be appreciated!

    thanks, misty

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  • Plugin Author Wayne Allen

    (@wayneallen-1)

    Yes it looks like there is a chicken/egg problem in the Postie code. I’ll need to spend some time figuring out how to resolve this.

    Thanks for taking the time to report this issue.

    Plugin Author Wayne Allen

    (@wayneallen-1)

    Version 1.8.45 has been released with this fix.

    Thread Starter mistyfog

    (@mistyfog)

    Hi,
    Thanks SO much for your fast response to this!

    One note – the Message setting for ‘Replace newline characters with html line breaks <br />’ needs to be turned on for the post to be scheduled. If it is off, then the scheduled date is ignored and the post gets the default status. Should it require this?

    I’m really happy I can now use Postie to schedule posts via email ??
    Thanks – misty

    Plugin Author Wayne Allen

    (@wayneallen-1)

    You can leave “Replace newline characters with html line breaks” off, but your need to have a blank line before the date command.

    Don’t do this:

    status: future
date: 2017-08-01

    Do this:

    status future

date: 2017-08-01

    Additionally if the date is in the future Postie will automatically change the status to future so you don’t have to specify it.

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