Scheduled post help

  • This might sound a bit of a weird one but wondered if you could help me out.
    Sportspress takes advantage of the scheduled post feature in wordpress to schedule matches and publishes them when the match has begun, it works great.

    Only problem I am finding is that scheduled posts have some limitations (at least in the application that I’m trying to achieve)

    1. Scheduled posts aren’t added to sitemap.xml
    2. Sharing buttons (on most plugins) won’t recognise a scheduled post so will either not show sharing buttons at all or share just a generic homepage.

    Is there a work around for this so scheduled posts have the same privileges as published posts?

    The reason I’m needing this workaround is that due to the nature of my site it’s important to promote scheduled matches via social media and SEO alot more than it is for published ones.

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  • Roch

    (@rochesterj)

    Hi!

    Thanks for reaching out!

    In your case since your site is SEO-heavy I think it would be much, much easier to create a bit of custom code to add your future posts to your sitemap / sharing buttons.

    Changing the current SportsPress mechanics would be much much harder as you’d need to create your own “due to” field, cron jobs and much more to make it work.

    Kind Regards,
    -Roch

    Plugin Author Brian

    (@brianmiyaji)

    @lagerassassin

    Are you using a plugin to generate the XML sitemap? I’d like to look into this. There might be a filter that we could hook into.

    Thread Starter lagerassassin

    (@lagerassassin)

    Thanks Roch and Brian for reaching out ??
    Roch that makes sense, not sure where to look for finding such code but will see what I can find.

    And yes Brian, I’m currently using Google XML Sitemaps (plugin) and I have tried a couple of others too to see if there is a way of achieving what I need but didn’t get much joy.
    The sitemaps offer the usual options of adding custom post types, categories etc (as you would expect) but no option anywhere to add scheduled posts.

    Roch

    (@rochesterj)

    Hi!

    Thanks for letting us know!

    I’ll send this to Brian once agian so he can help you

    THanks!

    Kind Regards,
    -Roch

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