I was wondering why my scheduled posts were not working automatically in Wagtail, but I see in the documentation that a management command is needed to make this happen. I am unfamiliar with writing custom management commands, and I am wondering how to make the python manage.py publish_scheduled_pages command fire off automatically every hour?
Where would this code go in the document tree? Is there code that I just need to drop in and it runs from there? Or is something required on the server to run these commands on a schedule?
Any help would be appreciated. I couldn't find any existing code anywhere for this functionality in Wagtail and I'm wondering why the button is in the admin to schedule a post, but the functionality is not already built in?
You are probably familiar with management commands since python manage.py runserver and makemigrations and migrate are management commands.
You can see all available commands with python manage.py -h
publish_scheduled_pages should be called periodically. Form the Wagtail docs:
This command publishes, updates or unpublishes pages that have had these actions scheduled by an editor. We recommend running this command once an hour.
Periodically executing a command can be done in various ways. Via crontab is probably the most common. To edit the crontab:
$ crontab -e
Add (for every fist minute of the hour):
0 * * * * python /path/to/your/manage.py publish_scheduled_pages --settings=your.settings