Social posting does not work with future post dates

[brycekirk]

Description

The idea would be that if there is a post date set to 8am tomorrow, and the social accounts are enabled, they would post to each social account when the post goes live. Instead, they just revert to being disabled upon save.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create an entry with a post date set in the future
2. Enable social posting and save the entry

Additional info

• Plugin version: 2.0.8
• Craft version: Craft Pro 3.1.34

[engram-design]

Adding this as a feature request as there's no in-build way of triggering an action at certain events. This would require a cron job or something similar setup.

[lenvanessen]

@engram-design we're also looking into this, perhaps the way that the Blitz extensions solves it works for social-poster as well, the mechanism used works very solidly for our content scheduling/cache invalidation.

Is there any eta on this for Social Poster? Otherwise we can't use it cause it's such a heavily used feature.

[engram-design]

I'd have to look into what Blitz does on this. But it'd still require some manual setup on your end to run a job on a continual basis to check if a post needs to be sent.

No ETA yet, sorry.