Forward: Queue Posts
The Queue action appears beside Publish in the block editor.
Forward: Queue Posts adds a simple publishing queue to WordPress. Instead of choosing an exact publish date manually, editors can queue a post or page and let the plugin place it after the previous queued or scheduled item.
You can choose the publishing window, the minimum time between queued items, whether weekends should be skipped, and how new queued items are placed.
Key features
- Adds a queue button to the post editor.
- Supports posts and pages.
- Schedules queued content by minutes, hours, or days.
- Lets you define a publishing window.
- Can avoid weekend publishing.
- Can queue after the previous queued item or the last scheduled post.
- Includes bundled translation files for common languages.
Good for
- Editorial calendars with a steady publishing rhythm.
- Sites that prepare several posts at once.
- Teams that want simple scheduling without managing exact dates manually.
Accessibility
WCAG 2.2 Level AA compliance is a release requirement for the interfaces generated by Forward: Queue Posts. The settings screen and editor actions are tested for accessible names and grouping, keyboard operation, visible focus, contrast, reflow, target size, and status or error announcements.
The plugin uses native WordPress editor controls and notices where possible. WordPress core, the active theme, other plugins, and authored content remain outside this plugin’s full-page conformance scope.
How scheduling works
Forward: Queue Posts uses your WordPress site timezone.
When an editor clicks Queue, the plugin starts from either the last queued item or the last scheduled post, depending on the selected queueing method. It then adds the configured minimum interval exactly, normalizes the result to the selected publishing window, and moves weekend dates to the next allowed publishing day when Avoid weekends is enabled.
Data and privacy
Forward: Queue Posts does not connect to external services. It stores plugin settings and the internal “last queued” timestamp in WordPress options, and updates queued posts or pages with normal WordPress scheduled-publish dates.