Perhaps you’ve started a new blog and you’ve imported a number of posts that are ready to be published. Perhaps you have an existing blog and you recently purchased a number of blog posts that are saved in draft form. Whatever the case, it can be time-consuming to timestamp all of these posts for publishing in a manual fashion.

Alleviating this concern is the Drafts Scheduler WordPress plugin by Jeff Rose. This plugin will automatically take all the posts in your WordPress blog that are currently sitting in draft status and it will schedule all of them for publishing at a future date.

Going through the options for this plugin, you can choose to publish your draft posts sequentially, defining the exact interval that you would like to use to separate each blog post. Alternatively, there is an option that allows for publishing the posts in a random order, but still based on the intervals you prefer. The third option is a full random publishing time for the posts, but you can still define the start date, the maximum number of posts per day, and the daily time frame.

It should be noted that there is no “undo” function in this build of the plugin and all draft posts will be time-stamped (“scheduled”) when you activate its use. The download link is available at the usual WordPress plugin directory.