WordPress has very useful built-in feature – it could start tasks by schedule. Of course you remember that you can schedule post publication and it will be published at needed time automatically. Thanks to WordPress developers team, this functionality is not limited by WordPress core. You can schedule your task for execution Once, Hourly, Twice a day, Daily. WordPress has public API for that. Look on this WordPress Codex page for your reference. Beautiful! Wonderful! That’s what I really need! But…

But what to do if you need to execute your task more often, than default schedule intervals offered by WordPress? Can you manage WordPress scheduler to start your job every 5 minutes instead of ‘hourly’, ‘twicedaily’ and ‘daily’ intervals?

I got questions from WordPress users how to change page status from ‘published’ to ‘pending for review’ automatically in case its author changed it. Its possible with little piece of code in your theme functions.php file and the same little user capabilities manipulation. You can look how it works on the video by this link or scrolling to the end of this post. So it seems, that problem is resolved. No. WordPress 2011 theme (and possibly others) is written such way, that page (with all changed content) is shown in any status, including ‘draft’. You just should know its link. Make little experiment. Create new page and save its draft. Then type in the browser URL to this page. Do you see it? Yes, me too.

How to change this WordPress behavior?
We need to update the ‘page.php’ template file from the 2011 (Twenty Eleven) theme package.