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Schedule Posts Calendar

by Greg Ross · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 22 other plugins · 6.2K+ installs across the portfolio →

Adds a JavaScript calendar to the scheduled publish widget to allow you to select a date and time graphically instead of via the text entry boxes.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
51 Health · D
Maintenance 12/100
Rating quality 82/100
Support 70/100

51 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities plugins

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

57 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 21/100
WP compatibility 68/100
Rating quality 64/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1000 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+63% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

238

now · peak 851

22830d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Schedule Posts Calen · #6772 you WP Admin UI Customiz · #1073 LH Archived Post Sta · #3756 HiFi (Head Injection · #4715

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.7Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

228per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

2.7y ago

latest release · v5.3

19

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

5.3 · 2.7y ago5.2 · 3.4y ago5.1 · 9.2y ago5.0 · 11.1y ago4.3 · 12.0y ago4.2 · 12.7y ago4.1 · 12.7y ago4.0 · 12.7y ago3.6 · 12.7y ago3.5 · 12.7y ago3.4 · 12.8y ago3.2 · 12.8y ago3.3 · 12.8y ago3.1 · 14.3y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 83% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v5.3 83%
v5.2 15%
v5.1 2.5%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
1K–2K ≈1.4K

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2015-08-14 · 1,429 observations

1KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
5.3
Last updated
2.7y ago
Added
2012-03-02 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.0
Tested up to
6.4.10
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. Frank
    3.7y ago

    This little plugin works great with WP 6.1.1 and save me a lot of work I would like to make one suggestion. I would like to see repeat rules (daily/weekly/monthly/yearly) similar to what available in Google Calendar If you could do this it would make Schedule Posts Calendar the best posting plugin available for wordpress because no plugin offers this feature

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  2. awatanycom
    6.2y ago

    Useful Plugin

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  3. Patrick_D1985
    6.7y ago

    Simply put this is convenience. But it’s an always install plugin because it makes live so much easier when planning content on the WP backend. Simple and effective!

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  4. lpasqualis
    9.3y ago

    I loved this plugin; until I found out that my posts were being saved with “Allow comments” and “Allow trackbacks and pingbacks on this page” unchecked. It appears that, when you use this to change the schedule of a post from the post list, it disables the post discussion settings.

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  5. Anonymous
    9.7y ago

    Simple but fantastic timesaver for scheduling posts!

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  6. coreyjames
    10.7y ago

    Does exactly what I wish WP did out of the box. Pops up a calendar for both date & time selection when scheduling posts. Just scheduled out a few months’ worth of daily content and am happy I found Schedule Posts Calendar before I started. Thanks Greg! (Version 5.0)

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  7. tonycutty
    10.7y ago

    Exactly what I wanted. Does everything I needed it to do! Thank you so much for this plugin 🙂

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  8. Anonymous
    11.6y ago

    I need that visual calendar to schedule. The only thing I wish it had that it doesn’t? I wish it matched the GUI laid out in the current admin colors. If it pulled in those colors, it would be epic with regards to design and layout 🙂

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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

2 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. 2023-08-16 CVE-2023-40560 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 5.2 Patched in 5.3
  2. 2023-08-16 CVE-2023-40556 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 5.2 Patched in 5.3

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

No tier crossings observed yet.

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