# Create topic in the future

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-topic-in-the-future/11997>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** completed\
**Created:** [January 16, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-topic-in-the-future/11997 "2014-01-16T17:14:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![sil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sil/32/2983_2.png) [@sil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sil)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-topic-in-the-future/11997/5 "2014-01-17T23:50:03Z")

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To fill in a little more detail on this, the reason I want it is that when  
we record an episode of a podcast, I run a script which creates a post on  
our (WordPress) website and also a new post to our discourse forum (  
[community.badvoltage.org](http://community.badvoltage.org)). The two posts link to one another. At the moment  
I have to be present at release time in order to run the script because  
discourse doesn’t allow me to post hidden; formerly I could run it whenever  
I wanted and set the WordPress publish time to be the release time.  
Obviously this is fairly niche, I accept, but a fix would be hugely useful  
to me. (I fear running the script from cron in case it goes wrong.)

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