Q2, 2024 — Schedule publication date
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Austin Gregersen
We are currently working on a new brand functionality as part of the Content Releases feature. It will enable to schedule a release to a specific publication date.
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Allow users to easily edit the
publishedAt
field with a simple date picker field in admin. Allow users to edit and update this like any other field. Unless I'm missing something this currently requires customization. There are plugins like https://market.strapi.io/plugins/strapi-plugin-publisher but these are related to scheduling rather than simply managing an existing publish date. I imagine most users expect the simple ability to manage publish date (or would utilize it) as a standard feature.A simple example would be to back date a blog post. Below is a screenshot of this feature in WordPress.
Aurélien Georget
Hello 👋,
Here is a short update. This capability is now available via the Releases feature. Please be aware the "Releases" is a paid feature. We will announce a significant pricing change in the coming months to make these features affordable and accessible to most of you.
Best,
Elvis Elrey
Hello Aurelien Georget it isn't easy to understand why this basic functionality is not considered part of the core product.
I can understand that scheduling the publication can be considered a paid add-on, plugin, etc., but such an elemental edit option for the
publishedAt
field feels a bit excessive.I'm personally disappointed. A couple of clients implemented Strapi, and they waited ages for Strapi 5, but now it's like if you want this basic stuff, you need to pay. It doesn't look good. Please reconsider this; I'm pretty sure other people see this situation similarly.
Evge K.
Elvis Elrey I agree it's a shame.
Aurélien Georget
Hello Elvis Elrey, I understand your concerns, and thank you for sharing them with us. Unfortunately, I won't give a positive answer to your request. The scheduling capability, part of the Release feature, will stay a paid feature until necessary. I don't exclude the possibility that it will be included as part of the Community Edition someday. However, we cannot give everything for free; otherwise, we wouldn't be able to provide the required funds to sustain the open-source project in the long term. There is no perfect answer as each project is unique. We decided to give RBAC and Internationalization for free, forever.
Elvis Elrey
Hello Aurelien Georget, maybe there is a misunderstanding, but I was talking about the fact that the
publishedAt
isn't editable from the form, which is a primary and elementary feature. The users want to edit the publication date, which is as simple as that.Aurélien Georget
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Aurélien Georget
Hello 👋,
Here is a short update. This capability is now available via the Releases feature. Please be aware the "Releases" is a paid feature. We will announce a significant pricing change in the coming months to make these features affordable and accessible to most of you.
Best,
Evge K.
Aurélien Georget Facepalm
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Lorenz
Any update on when it will be released?
Aurélien Georget
in progress
Evge K.
there's an open issue?
Brendan English
Me too. I'm also migrating for WP and would love the ability to have more control over the blog post ordering (without having to create a custom date entry for order).
If it helps anyone else, I made a work around where I added a "post_date" field to my blogs and then am running a lifecycle hook to manually set this field to the publish date when published (though you can edit this whenever). The goal here is to sort my blogs by this date vs the publishedAt date. Please ping me if you have questions!
Ugis Ka
This is critical for me too, migrating from WP to Strapi at the moment. I guess I could manually edit database entries, but would like to have this feature from admin backend.
Rihards Simanovics
I am currently migrating to Strapi from WP and require this feature, so the migrated posts show up correctly. I find this to be an oversight of the feature planning, as assuming that no one would want to edit the published date isn't correct.