Wordpress Tip: Write a post and schedule it for tomorrow
It’s always a good idea to try and add fresh content to your blog on a daily basis. But, admittedly, this can sometimes be impossible considering the amount of time it can take to create an original, well thought out post.
If you’re a WordPress user this can be much easier thanks to a feature that allows you to publish a post today and schedule it to actually post to your blog tomorrow or next week or next month.
How can this be useful? Well, let’s say you’ve had something on your mind for a couple of days and you’ve been meaning to blog about it, but it’s specific to a day (tax vote, Holiday, etc) and you just can’t find time during the week to write it out. Using the feature provided by Wordpress, you can write this post during the weekend or on an evening when you have some time, and the post will auto-publish at the time and date you set for it.
Or say you have a simple “Thursday Caption It” post that you publish every Thursday morning. If you had some extra time on a Saturday night, you could set up a month’s worth of these and schedule them for each Thursday morning. Your Thursday posts are set to run for a month now!
Even better, you’re planning a vacation or a trip that will take you away from a wireless connection… schedule a few posts for those day and you’re all set.
Surely setting this up is a pain in the butt, right? Not at all. In fact, it’s extremely simple.
To get an article to post in the future, once you’ve finished your post follow these steps:
1) Scroll down the entire page (not the post entry scroll bar), find and open the ‘Post Timestamp’ menu;
2) Tick the box labeled ‘Edit Timestamp’;
3) Change the time and date to the time and date you want the article to post to your blog;
4) Click on ‘Publish’ and you’re done!
Ahh… the blessedness of simple.
-Eric Odom