i ended up making a new plugin, and it works pretty well

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 The date for publishing and expiring could be set be using some new directives; an alternative could be to expand the [[plugin/meta]] plugin with [<span/>[!meta date="auto publish date"]] and [<span/>[!meta expires="auto expire date"]].
 
 --[[JeanPrivat]]
 The date for publishing and expiring could be set be using some new directives; an alternative could be to expand the [[plugin/meta]] plugin with [<span/>[!meta date="auto publish date"]] and [<span/>[!meta expires="auto expire date"]].
 
 --[[JeanPrivat]]

+
+> This is a duplicate, and expansion, of
+> [[todo/tagging_with_a_publication_date]].
+> There, I suggest using a branch to develop
+> prepublication versions of a site, and merge from it
+> when the thing is published. 
+> 
+> Another approach I've seen used is to keep such pages in a pending/
+> directory, and move them via cron job when their publication time comes.
+> But that requires some familiarity with, and access to, cron.
+> 
+> On [[todo/tagging_with_a_publication_date]], I also suggested using meta 
+> date to set a page's date into the future,
+> and adding a pagespec that matches only pages with dates in the past,
+> which would allow filtering out the unpublished ones.
+> Sounds like you are thinking along these lines, but possibly using
+> something other than the page's creation or modification date to do it.
+> 
+> I do think the general problem with that approach is that you have to be
+> careful to prevent the unpublished pages from leaking out in any
+> inlines, maps, etc. --[[Joey]] 
+
+[[!tag wishlist]]