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A plugin for Movable Type and Melody that publishes scheduled entries via a TheSchwartz job, rather than relying on a scheduled task.

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FuturePost Job

For legacy reasons, Movable Type and Melody  publish future or "scheduled posts" by way of a periodic task. In short, these means that periodically MT will checked to see if there are any entries with a Scheduled status that have come due, and then publish them. A side-effect of this is that in most cases an entry scheduled for 10:30 won't actually publish until 10:46 or 11:15, or even later (depending on your MT configuration and other periodic tasks).

But what if the post is time-sensitive, and you really want that post to live at 10:30?

This plugin aims to address this by creating a "TheSchwartz" job to publish the post. When the entry is saved, a job gets created for the entry, configured to run at desired publishing date and time.  Combine this with running the run-periodic-tasks in daemon mode and scheduled posts should publish very close to the scheduled time.

License
This plugin is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.