Post Scheduler for Vanilla Forums 2.0/2.1b

Post Scheduler for Vanilla Forums 2.0/2.1b gives you the possibility of scheduling Discussions and Announcements to be displayed to your Users at a later date and time.

How it works

The plugin modifies the interface used to add or edit a Discussion, and adds a field that allows you to schedule the post to become visible to other Users at a later date and time. To make things easier, the scheduler implements a JavaScript date/time picker, so that selecting the date and time is just a matter of a few clicks.

Once a Discussion is scheduled, only the following Users will be able to see it before its scheduled time:

• The User who started the discussion.
• Super Administrators.
• Any User with the permission to see all Scheduled discussions.

Everyone else will simply not see it anywhere, until the time comes.

Key Features

• Zero configuration needed. Plugin works out of the box.
• Intuitive User Interface. Scheduled Discussions are highlighted to easily recognise them before they go live (see Notes).
• Convenient list of current User’s scheduled Discussions is displayed amongst the Discussion tabs.
• No need to schedule Cron jobs or timed tasks: Discussions will appear automatically at the specified date and time.
• Integration with Logger Plugin for Vanilla, for easier debugging and troubleshooting.
• Delays delivery of Notifications related to new Discussions (from version 13.02.25).
• Compatible with both Vanilla 2.0 and 2.1b (see Notes)

Requirements

• PHP 5.3+
• Vanilla Forums 2.0/2.1b (see Notes)
• Logger Plugin 13.02.01 or newer must be installed and enabled
• Aelia Foundation Classes 13.02.27 or newer

Notes

• Plugin has been tested on Vanilla 2.1b and it should be compatible with it. However, since Vanilla 2.1 is still in Beta, compatibility cannot be guaranteed. For the same reason, we provide limited assistance for installation in such environment.
• As of version 13.02.25, plugin also delays the delivery of notifications related to new Discussions. Please note that such feature, on Vanilla 2.1, is experimental and could have some issues. This is due to the new mechanism that such version uses to manage notifications, which is still incomplete and contains several bugs.
• Highlighting of scheduled Discussions has been designed for Vanilla’s default theme. Using the plugin with 3rd party themes might require some adjustment to the plugin’s CSS files.
• Important: this plugin requires some modifications to Vanilla Core files. Such changes are made automatically, in a non-permanent way when the plugin is enabled, and don’t affect normal operations even when the plugin is disabled.
  If you wish to ensure that every modification to Core files is removed when the plugin is disabled, simply remove all ini files from cache folder and its subfolders.