Controlled Draft Publisher
Content Management Content Scheduling & Expiration
Controlled Draft Publisher is a WordPress plugin for Content Scheduling & Expiration. It ranks #30 of 34 in that group by active installs and was last updated 2 months ago.
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Maintenance check
Is Controlled Draft Publisher still maintained?
Mostly - but at least one sign below is worth checking before you rely on it.
- Updated recently. The last release was 2 months ago.
- Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 7.0.8, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.
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More installed than 76.7% of the directory
Ahead of 36,610 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.
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The record
Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.
- Current version
- 1.7.7
- Requires WordPress
- 5.0
- Tested up to
- 7.0.8
- Requires PHP
- 8.0
- Added to the directory
- 18 October 2025
- Last updated
- 13 September 2026
- Contributors
- 1
- Author
- techygeekshome
- Support threads resolved
- 1 of 1
Its own tags
- content workflow
- cron
- drafts
- publish automation
- scheduler
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