schedule a revision to publish without unpublishing existing content

[alxndr]

Boy, it sure would be swell if I could take an existing post/page, edit the content or add tags/custom terms, and then schedule that revision to be published later, without unpublishing the previous revision.

Other people think it would be cool too...
​http://wordpress.org/support/topic/216545
​http://wordpress.org/support/topic/226600
​http://wordpress.org/support/topic/273701
​http://wordpress.org/support/topic/273730
​http://wordpress.org/support/topic/275932

[adamsilverstein]

This is an interesting idea. This is related to ticket #23314 because currently WordPress does not offer a way to save changes to a published post without updating the published post. Once that ticket gets a fix your issue would be easier to resolve. The 'Save as Draft' button suggested in the other ticket could offer a publish later feature - create a revision, then schedule a restore of that revision at the time you set.

Thanks for your suggestion!

[chriscct7]

I think at this point this is plugin territory, and there's a general lack of interest on this ticket. Closing as maybelater