What is the recommended best approach to scheduled publish/unpublish strategy?
Ideally, I'd want to be able to make a page or rendering on a page to publish/unpublish at a specific date/time.
I believe I have to enable the scheduler in a config file, but I don't want to have the cache invalided every time this runs, and also don't want to cut content editors working on to publish before they're ready..
I am running Sitecore 9
We’ve used this module to great effect before and it is much more feature rich than the out of the box auto publishing task:
https://marketplace.sitecore.net/Modules/S/Sitecore_Scheduled_Publish.aspx?sc_lang=en
It’s by the Hedgehog Guys, it’s also on GitHub here with docs:
https://github.com/HedgehogDevelopment/SCScheduledPublishing
I’ve not tried it with Sitecore 9 yet and it doesn’t say it works with 9 but it may well work, maybe install it on a dev instance and see.
The difference with this module is content editors get some nice new buttons in the ribbon next to publish where they can choose when to publish/unpublish their items:
It allows you to set a time and also supports versions which is nice:
They can see any other scheduled publish/unpublish too too:
From what I recall you can get it to send an email when something published too and control who can see the buttons too which is pretty nice.
