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Future-dated Scheduled Posts Content Preview

Solution for scheduled future-dated posts consists of one WP Future Posts
plugin and one futureposts.php file.
Obviously you can have few hundreds of future posts, but I'm limiting the tool to trigger up to 59 of the most proximate posts to be published, so this will give you few months of unpacked posts with content.

For slower servers on shared hosts, I would use less than 59 future posts. You can edit the number in futureposts.php file.
I tested 99 scheduled posts generated by Posting Mage and it covers several months into the future (on average - one post every 2 or 3 days).
I got them all triggered and previewed in several minutes on ServInt VPS server.

And this solution gives you also additional benefit - I included browser with
it, so you can preview future content and do some spot checks.
For example you want to publish post about vitamins, and "answers" or "articles" may give you some inappropriate stuff which you may not want on your website.
Doing this review manually in Posts Edit in WP would take forever.

Each time you run it - you will have 59 triggered/unpacked posts to be published in the future.

And you do need those posts unpacked when using Slick Social or other bookmarking applications; otherwise all your mage-tags will be indexed by web 2.0 sites instead of content.

As a bonus, Future Post plugin comes with widget. I wouldn’t use it all the time. You can place it in sidebar and set number of future posts to be previewed to low number, between 1 and 5, as more doesn’t make sense. Just for fun, teaser preview for visitors.

Download Future Post WP plugin ver 1.4, unzip it, install in /wp-content/plugins directory like any other plugin and activate it.

Download futureposts.php file, unzip it and FTP to root of your website domain.
You can rename that file as well, if you wish, for privacy reasons.
Note. If downloaded futureposts.php file before 3pm on Jan 25, please download new version now.

To run the tool just type URL (yourdomain.com/futureposts.php) in your browser and enjoy it.

For faster results you may want to deactivate Sociable plugin while running the tool, and activate it again when done.

The Previewer could be run by cron.
Just estimate how long it would take to publish future-dated 59 posts.
Could be 2 months or more, depending on your PostingMage settings.

Then program cron to run it once a month or so.
Each time it runs, 59 posts will have content.

Suggested usage - unpack 59 future posts in one run, the rest you can schedule for cron to be run once a month.

Tip - to have your posts load faster and avoid junk content, I wouldn't use "translation". It takes a lot of resources and causes timeouts.

Actually with cron, I'd lower the number of previews to 40 instead of 59 (better for weak servers), and schedule cron to run it once a month, automatically.

Another usage is to let visitors of your website preview few of your Future-dated Posts, teaser preview. For this purpose it is the best to use Future Posts Widget and enter number of future posts to be previewed between 1 and 3.

Screenshot of future posts browser preview (click on image to enlarge)