How to Schedule a node "Promoted to front page"?

Question

I am looking for a way to schedule "Promoted To home page" nodes to appear after a particular time.

When user creates a new node and checks "Promoted To home page", it should not appear immediately on publish on the homepage.

Then need a scheduler which set "Promoted To home page" nodes to appear on front page.

The node will published and visible if accessed directly or seen in other section.

Answer 1

You can do this using the Rules module in combination with the "Rules Scheduler" (a submodule of it). After you enable these 2 modules, create a Rules Component and a Rule. Here is a blueprint of doing so:

• Create a Rules Component which accepts "node" as a parameter, and which has a Rules Action to set the node to "published".
• Create a Rule like so:
  • Rules Event: Before saving a new node.
  • Rules Actions: (1) set the node to "unpublished" (to be sure it is not "published" when the node is saved) and (2) schedule the Rules Component created in the previous step.

Note: From the comment below this answer (which states "The node will remain Published all the time.") it doesn't seem to apply for the question here, but using a similar approach you could also schedule another Rules Component to mark it unpublished again later on, eg X days after the node gets published. In that case, you use Rules Event "After updating an existing node", combined with a Rules Condition to check if the update changed "unpublished" to "published".