86
Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories
Content managers can finally automate their post lifecycle.
HealthyGrowing
86/100
This plugin provides reliable post automation and works well with custom post types.
Active installs
~151,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.5★
171 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+7%
Growing
759 → 813 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing · +7% in the last year
759/day a year ago→813/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayPublishPress Future is well-regarded as a reliable and practical post-scheduling tool, valued especially for its custom post type support and responsive support team, with only minor feature gaps noted by users.
What people like
- +Reliably schedules post status changes and unpublishing as expected×4
- +Works well with custom post types, including those created by third-party plugins like Pods×2
- +Support team is responsive, thorough, and effective at resolving complex issues×2
- +Useful for automating scheduled tasks, freeing users from manual management×2
- +Handles auto-drafted posts in addition to published content
Common complaints
- −Sends notifications for auto-draft deletions, which at least one user considers unnecessary noise
- −No built-in option to automatically add a noindex meta tag to a page on a scheduled date
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.75★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.50★
- 7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 171 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-02-10★★★★★Perfect SolutionRuanna
- 2025-12-22★★★★★This plugin has not been tested with your current version of WordPressBɅJV
- 2025-10-20★★★★★Love this plugin.abldigital
- 2025-10-18★★★★★Very usefullAudunBK
- 2025-07-25★★★★★Great plugindionysios
- 2025-07-09★★★★★Very convenientaki
- 2025-05-22★★★★★Very good support and a very helpfull pluginTom
- 2025-05-01★★★★★Excelente acompanhamento para eventosdaudtivan
- 2025-05-01★★★★★Great plugin!Matt Rock
- 2025-02-03★★★★★Funziona molto benerudiexp
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
748
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
798
Prior 7-day baseline
937
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
12,498
Mean release-day peak (30d)
2,171
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
-6.3%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
11%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.11
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
91%
5★ share in analyzed sample
7%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-50%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.76 → 4.75★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered