# Is it possible to schedule posts?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-schedule-posts/16045
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [May 28, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-schedule-posts/16045 "2014-05-28T17:51:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@joeygufreda](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joeygufreda)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-schedule-posts/16045/1 "2014-05-28T17:51:04Z")
There are times when I’d like to write a topic ahead of time, but not have the post go live until a specific time and date in the future. Is this possible now, or is it on the roadmap?
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### Author:  [@johnarce](https://meta.discourse.org/u/johnarce)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-schedule-posts/16045/2 "2014-05-28T18:17:35Z")
It would be a nice feature to have. how about a plugin?
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-schedule-posts/16045/3 "2014-05-28T19:12:53Z")
Once upon a time it was on @neil’s list:
> [@Create topic in the future](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-topic-in-the-future/11997/6):
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> Scheduling a topic for the future (auto-unhide) would be really useful. Added to my list.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2014, 2:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-schedule-posts/16045/4 "2014-05-29T02:25:24Z")
If only we could get @neil to stop slacking off!
This is something we want to do, but low pri. Unlikely to make v1.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-schedule-posts/16045/5 "2015-05-04T02:26:47Z")
This is something that is a lot more likely to happen now that @eviltrout did all the hard work in v1.3 to make post queuing work (for approval of every new post by a new user, etc.)
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### Author:  [@mattp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattp)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2015, 11:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-schedule-posts/16045/6 "2015-06-25T23:07:01Z")
Hey Jeff - that’s good news!
Regarding post scheduling, would this be something to look forward to as potential core functionality, or more as an opportunity to more easily write an add-on?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2015, 1:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-schedule-posts/16045/7 "2015-06-26T01:30:56Z")
It is something we would need to schedule for a release.
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### Author:  [@jonobacon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jonobacon)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-schedule-posts/16045/8 "2015-06-29T16:35:12Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> It is something we would need to schedule for a release.
Just weighing in on some thoughts here.
I think this would be tremendously useful, particularly from a community growth perspective. Typically most communities need the same sort of time to build momentum as a habit (around 66 days), so regular topics with thoughtful topics are useful here. The key thing is knowing the URL of the future topic would be important so this could be combined with social media promotion and services like Buffer.
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### Author:  [@markwilkin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markwilkin)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-schedule-posts/16045/9 "2015-06-29T16:41:33Z")
Hey this is one of those features I didn’t know I wanted but now I realise how incredibly useful it would be for setting up say a Q&A thread and have the URL ready ahead of time to set up on a URL shortener and queue up for a Facebook and Twitter post. So yeah would be ace if we could get this in a future release.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2015, 9:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-schedule-posts/16045/10 "2015-12-29T09:37:37Z")
Discussion continued here:
> [@Schedule posts/topic?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/schedule-posts-topic/32416):
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> Continuing the discussion from [UPDATE: Changing timestamp through UI](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-changing-timestamp-through-ui/29464): In addition to changing the timestamp on a post, would it be possible to create a topic/post and schedule it to ‘post’ at a predefined time in the future?