Introduction

BuddyPress Schedule Activity lets your members write a BuddyPress or BuddyBoss activity update now and have it publish automatically at a future date and time they choose.

A member composes a post as usual, opens a small scheduler on the activity form, picks a date and time, and submits. The update is held out of the activity stream until its moment arrives, then a background task publishes it so it appears as a normal activity that others can see, like, and comment on.

What you can do with it

• Let any logged-in member schedule an activity update for a future date and time.
• Schedule updates inside groups, respecting the group’s own membership and posting rules.
• Keep scheduled updates private to their author until they publish.
• Let members review and cancel their own pending updates from a “Scheduled Posts” tab on their profile.
• Publish automatically through WordPress cron, with no manual step.

How it works at a glance

1. A member clicks the clock icon on the activity post form and picks a date and time (today up to 90 days out, in the site’s timezone).
2. On submit, the update is saved with its future publish time and flagged as scheduled, so it stays out of every activity feed.
3. A cron task runs every minute, finds updates whose time has arrived, and publishes them into the normal activity stream.

No setup required

Once BuddyPress (or BuddyBoss) is active, scheduling works out of the box. The plugin has no settings screen of its own. Its admin area (under WB Plugins in wp-admin) only shows status, help, and your license, not configuration. See Requirements and Installation to get started.