Automation and scheduling
Pages that go live on schedule and keep themselves up to date
Add a row to your Google Sheet with the date the page should go live. LPagery picks it up on the next sync, and WordPress publishes the page on that date.
Scheduled publishing starts on Standard. Per-page dates, Google Sheet Sync and Background Generation come with Extended.
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What you get
Your pages keep growing and stay current while you work on other things
Release your pages a few at a time
Give each row in your source file its own date in an lpagery_publish_date column. LPagery creates all pages in one run. With Page Status set to Publish, rows with a future date become scheduled pages, and WordPress publishes each one on its day.
One publish date per row, as many rows as you like
New and changed rows reach your site on their own
Connect a Google Sheet and pick how often LPagery checks it. Each sync creates pages for new rows, updates the pages whose rows changed and, if you allow it, deletes pages whose rows you removed. Rows that didn't change are skipped.
Hourly, Twice Daily, Daily or Weekly
Start a big run and close the tab
Switch on Generate in background and your WordPress server creates the pages instead of your browser. You can close the tab or the laptop, follow the progress in Manage and cancel the run at any time.
Failed rows are retried automatically
How it works
Set it up once, then let it run
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Add dates to your rows
Add an lpagery_publish_date column and give each row the date its page should go live. Rows without a date use the Page Status and date from the Create screen.
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Connect your Google Sheet
Choose Google Sheet as your input, switch on Enable Google Sheet Sync and tick what a sync may do: create, update or delete pages. You set the interval in Settings.
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Let LPagery do the rest
LPagery checks your sheet on schedule and turns new rows into pages. WordPress publishes each page on its date, and you can follow every run in Manage.
It runs on the scheduler built into WordPress
Syncs, background runs and scheduled pages all run on WP-Cron. If your host has switched it off, LPagery shows a warning in Settings and marks a waiting run as Stalled after about 10 minutes. A real server cron job fixes both and makes scheduled posts more reliable too.
More about Google Sheet SyncQuestions about automation and scheduling
- Can LPagery create a few new pages every day on its own?
LPagery creates all pages of a run at once. To release them gradually, give each row its own lpagery_publish_date and keep Page Status on Publish: the pages are created as scheduled pages and WordPress publishes each one on its date. With Google Sheet Sync you can also add rows over time, and the next sync turns them into pages.
- Which plan do I need?
The free plugin publishes pages right away. Standard lets you pick the page status and schedule a whole run for one date and time. Per-page publish dates, Google Sheet Sync and Background Generation need Extended, and Ultimate includes them too.
- How often does Google Sheet Sync run?
You choose Hourly, Twice Daily, Daily or Weekly in Settings, and you can set the date and time of the next sync. Sync Now starts a sync right away.
- What happens to pages I edited by hand?
A sync keeps your edits to their content and design. Values that come from the sheet, such as the slug, status or publish date, can still change. If the sheet should win, you can switch on Overwrite manual changes in the Google Sheet Sync settings.
- Do I have to re-run my pages after I change the template?
In Live Mode you don't: each page is rendered from the template when someone opens it, so changes show right away. Classic pages get the change when you run an update on the page set.
- Does LPagery have an API or a Zapier integration?
LPagery has no public API or Zapier app. Google Sheet Sync is the way in from other tools: anything that can add rows to a Google Sheet, such as Zapier or Make, can add pages through it.
Let your pages go live on their own schedule
Scheduled publishing starts on Standard. Per-page dates, Google Sheet Sync and Background Generation come with Extended.