For me, though, a lot of my posts are time-sensitive and a lot of them are in multiple categories, so just turning off certain categories doesn’t work well.

What I really want is:

1. The ability to choose categories to INCLUDE rather than EXCLUDE. No it’s not the same. If a post is in both categories A and B, if I EXCLUDE category B, I don’t get the post (how OPS currently works, as I understand), but if I INCLUDE category A, it should be included, whether it’s in B or not.

2. The ability to include by tag rather than category. Then I could go through and just add a tag to all those posts I want OPS to recycle. Sure, I could use a category and then use another plugin to hide the category from the navigation, etc., but a tag would just be much better. I could make a tag called „evergreen“ or „timeless“ or „best of“ or „classic“, and it would make sense, as well as give the OPS functionality I want.

Is that the way it works? I understood that no matter the visitors it checks the time and settings and automatically makes the spin and new post.

No, you can’t.
At least not with this plugin because it would mean to implement a real connection to some system cronjob which can be troublesome to program.

If you installed in locally you have to reload the main page to make it start. Otherwise the scheduler won’t run.

YET ANOTHER GREAT PLUGIN.
Thank you.