Scheduling already published posts or pages causes 404 error on page

[wpfed]

Scenario: If you have a live published page and need to make some changes to it but those changes shouldn't be visible until a certain time.

Steps

1. Edit a published post
2. Change the publish date to future date and click update

Result: The post is now unpublished! (404 error)

Expected: New changes I made to update/appear on the scheduled date without taking down the page with a 404 error in the meantime.

Solution: Draft a revision of a published post without un-publishing it?

There is discussion about it here from a while ago, but none of the solutions or plugins are good:

​https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/3986/is-there-any-way-to-draft-a-revision-of-a-published-page-or-post-what-workaroun

​https://redearthdesign.com/help-center/update-live-wordpress-page-post/

This seems like a common workflow?

[nuggetsol]

Have you tried using Oasis Workflow Pro plugin - Apart from providing an editorial workflow, it allows you to add review workflow for published/revised article. Check this article and see if this helps - ​https://www.oasisworkflow.com/documentation/working-with-workflows/revise-published-content

[wpfed]

Thanks, I have not tried that plugin but it does look to provide a solution to the workflow issue, specifically revising live published content without taking it offline.

It also seems to add extra options that I wasn't really looking for, just wanted something simple and to the point, will investigate it some more.

[wpfed]

This is how the proper plugin should function, all other plugins I tested are complicated and don't merge with the UI well.

​https://github.com/WordPress/revisions-extended