The Queue

Add as a simple publication queue to umbraco to allow editors to send pages to a queue to be processed in the background. 

Usefull when you have the need to publish loads of nodes and don't want to just sit and wait for the publication to complete (or timeout).

The package adds a Send to Publication Queue option to content nodes, and some background api extensions so you can add things to the queue in code. 

Umbraco 8 : 

This package works with Umbraco 8.9+ : There were some internal issues with publishing content via background tasks in earlier versions of Umbraco; these have been resolved by Umbraco v8.9.

Umbraco 7. 

Nuget Package for Umbraco 7 is : Our.Umbraco.PublishQueue

Scheduled Task (v7.6)

A scheduled event will automatically run every 2 minutes to check if there is anything in the queue to process - you can control this with the 

publishQueue.disableScheduledQueue and publishQueue.disableScheduledQueue settings in the AppSettings section of the web.config 

Scheduled Task (v7.5)

The queue can be controlled via the dashboard in settings, but it can be setup as a scheduled task to run in the background

for example adding: 

<task log="true" alias="publishQueue" interval="120" url="http://site.name.com/umbraco/api/PublishQueueSchedule/ProcessQueue?throttle=250" />