# Scheduled Joomla content with receipts

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## Overview

Schedule Joomla articles and banners with a visual workflow. Hosted cron, retries, and logs — then Create Article, Publish Article, or banner nodes.

Joomla workflow automation on a timetable: hosted cron starts the flow, AI or media nodes prepare the asset, article or banner nodes update the live site.

## The job

You want the homepage banner or a daily article to change without someone logging into Joomla. CLI cron can hit a URL; it will not show retries, charts, or the rest of the workflow.

JOrchestrator’s hosted scheduler starts the same canvas you use for events. The Joomla site only has to be reachable — including through a LAN tunnel.

## The flow

A typical daily Joomla automation looks like this:

- Hosted schedule fires at 06:30 in the site timezone
- Optional AI or Generative Video node drafts copy or a still
- Create Article or a banner/media node writes the CMS
- Publish Article (or publish banner) makes it live
- Debug stays on while you test; remove it for production

- [Create Article](/nodes/create-article) — Write the daily piece
- [Publish Article](/nodes/publish-article) — Make it live on the timetable
- [Publish Banner](/nodes/publish-banner) — Swap the homepage asset
- [Upload Media](/nodes/upload-media) — Put the file on the site first
- [Joomla automation hub](/joomla-automation) — Events, schedules, and the wider map

## Why not only Joomla cron?

Joomla scheduled publishing is fine for a known go-live date on one article. It is a poor workflow engine: no AI step, no Slack receipt, no “if the image job failed, do not publish”. Those branches are why this is a flow.

## FAQ

### Does this require Joomla CLI cron?

No. The hosted scheduler triggers the flow. CMS Webcron is available on paid plans if you prefer the site to pull. Either way you get logs and retries on the canvas.

### Can I schedule WordPress the same way?

Yes — swap in WordPress nodes such as Update Post and Publish Post. The timetable is platform-agnostic.

## Related pages

- [Joomla automation](/joomla-automation) — Events, articles, and schedules
- [Publish a Joomla article](/use-cases/joomla-publish-article) — Webhook-driven variant