A Free WordPress
Bulk Publishing PluginKennyDTC Smart Publisher

KennyDTC Smart Publisher is released under GPLv2 or later. The current version is free with no hidden fees. Downloading and using it requires no KennyDTC account or email address.

In version 1.6.0, batch categories were saved only after clicking “Apply and Save Categories”; direct bulk publishing or scheduling ignored those selections. Version 1.6.1 fixes this. After upgrading, select your categories and “Replace Existing Categories,” then publish or schedule to remove Blog. “Add” keeps Blog. Upgrading does not change categories on older published or scheduled posts. You can update those in WordPress Quick Edit while keeping their dates. Individual buttons at the bottom of each post card use only that card’s categories.

Select the import batch in Content Review. Under “Batch Categories” below the scheduling controls, choose categories, Replace or Add, and the scope. From 1.6.1, you can publish or schedule in bulk and the categories will be saved first, or click “Apply and Save Categories” separately. Batch categories override card categories. Replace removes unselected old categories such as Blog; Add keeps them. Whole-batch scope includes other pages, up to 100 posts. Only selected posts are published or scheduled.

If you changed only categories on post cards, select the posts and publish or schedule directly. Categories are saved in the same request before publishing continues. A failed save stops publication and shows an error. Unsaved title, content, SEO or featured image changes still need a separate save. If categories save but the schedule rules are invalid, the plugin reports it and does not publish automatically.

Under Plugin Settings → Category Management, select existing site categories or open WordPress’s native category manager. The priority is: categories explicitly matched from the document, plugin import defaults, enabled category suggestions, then WordPress’s default category. Defaults affect only new imports. Use batch category controls to update existing imports.

Yes. Change the navigation language under Plugin Settings → HTML and Article Navigation. Home, Breadcrumb and Table of Contents default to English regardless of the admin or site language. Post titles and category names are not translated automatically. Existing imported navigation can update with the setting; refresh affected post caches if page caching is enabled.

Version 1.5.1 fixed empty content when importing DOCX files with large embedded images. An upgrade alone cannot restore posts already saved blank. Reimport the original DOCX files, check content, images and schedules, then handle the old blank entries.

No. Imports create drafts and add them to the review queue. After checking and saving, choose daily, weekly or monthly scheduling, per-post times or immediate publishing. Version 1.6.1 retains the earlier fixes for draft times being reset and scheduled posts publishing immediately.

Save your changes in Content Review and select the posts. Choose daily, weekly or monthly scheduling, a maximum number of posts per period, a start time, an optional deadline, a minimum interval and a daily time window. Weekly schedules allow weekday selection; monthly schedules allow dates from 1–31. Click “Confirm Staggered Schedule.” Period limits are maximums, not even-distribution targets. Weeks run Monday to Sunday and months follow the calendar. Daily time windows cannot cross midnight.

WordPress scheduling uses WP-Cron, which needs site traffic or a server task to trigger it. Low traffic, disabled WP-Cron or hosting problems can delay publication. Several overdue tasks may run together when service resumes. For reliable triggers, ask your host to run wp-cron.php on a schedule. The queue flags overdue posts.

Enable automatic Yoast settings and provide one complete phrase. In Word, use a separate paragraph such as “Keyword: mosaic puzzle.” For JSON or XLSX, use focus_keyphrase; keyword, keywords and focus_keyword are also supported. If no phrase is supplied, the plugin generates an editable suggestion that still needs review.

With automatic Yoast settings enabled, edit and sync them in Content Review. When the feature is off, those SEO fields are read-only and the plugin stops automatic writes. You can still edit them manually in the Yoast panel of WordPress’s post editor. The plugin’s phrase-location hints are not Yoast scores.

The plugin preserves web-compatible paragraphs, tables, headings, lists, text formatting, links and image details where possible. It does not promise a pixel-perfect copy of Word’s page layout. Fixed page breaks, headers and footers are not intended to be reproduced exactly on the web. Check the actual preview after import.

The plugin allows up to 20 MB per file, 50 files and 100 articles per import. Your host may impose lower limits on file size, file count or request size; follow the on-screen limits. DOCX and XLSX imports also check the size of extracted content. Split large imports into smaller batches.

If the server’s image library supports it, new static images can be converted and compressed to WebP, with adjustable quality and maximum width. Animated GIFs keep their original format. Featured images can be kept in full or cropped.

The plugin does not automatically report your installation domain, admin email or article content. Downloading remote images referenced in articles or clicking official website links in the admin area generates the normal network requests for those actions.

Upload the new ZIP and replace the current plugin to retain posts, media and settings. Do not uninstall the old version first. Posts published by mistake are not automatically unpublished. If needed, use Publishing Queue → Published → Move Back to Drafts for Rescheduling.

Use theKennyDTC Contact Pageto share your WordPress, PHP and Yoast versions, steps to reproduce the issue and error messages. Do not send website passwords or other sensitive information.

Yes. Turn off “Automatic Yoast Settings” under Smart Publisher → Plugin Settings → Categories and SEO. It is enabled by default. When off, the plugin stops generating or writing SEO titles, descriptions and focus keyphrases, while preserving existing values. This does not disable Yoast or affect content, images, slugs, excerpts or manual edits in the Yoast panel. Turning it back on does not itself rewrite older posts in bulk.

If a deadline is set and all selected posts cannot fit, the batch is not scheduled and you are prompted to adjust the rules. A monthly date range of 31–31 skips months without a 31st. Monthly intervals are calculated from the previous actual scheduled date; if the next month lacks that date, its last day is used.