Schedule Blog Postings Using Wordpress Timestamp


Wordpress has a lot a cool features. I like Post Timestamp. It allows you to move the order of posts or schedule them for future publication.

I use it to automatically publish a post after midnight EST. I like this time for 2 reasons. One, the left coast may still see it and others will see it first thing the next morning. Also, I don’t have to worry about a post going up the next day.

If you’re like me, sometimes you have nothing to write & other times your brain gets going and you can write a bunch of posts. If you’re really crazy you could do 102 posts in a day. When fertility strikes, milk that brain juice & write. Then just put them in the “hopper” (you know that place where all those unfinished posts live) and schedule them for release as you please. I will often stagger releases throughtout the day so those checking their feedreaders see a new post. No fuss blogging.

Let’s face it, this blogging stuff is hard work & most people have to make a living. So use this tool to make your blogging life a little easier.

The tool is located in the sidebar of the Write Post section. It looks like this:

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Don’t forget to check Edit timestamp and Publish to activate the tool.

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  • thanks for inviting me here.!
    i got a lot of information here.
    good work.
  • You're welcome Maureen. I still get the AHAs myself.
  • As a relative newbie to Wordpress, every few days I have an "AHA!" moment. Most often, its inpsired by those of you who are much further into the belly of the it. Thanks for today's "AHA!" This will be quite useful.
  • I use tabbed browsing and usually have about 15-25 tabs open at any given time in Safari and firefox. I use saft for Safari to save my session, but the new RC2 of Firefox does not have a similar feature and the extension I used is not compatible ... ah, well. Trials and tribulations of being on the bleeding edge.

    I just checked and I have about 20 posts that remain in the "germinating phase" ... just in case. :)
  • typepad has a similar feature. When I get an idea I save it as a draft. I can also set the date for any post. If I know that I will not have time to write I write several posts and schedule them to go. I try to keep 3 or 4 posts ready for a bloggers block emergency.
  • Jim, do you use tab browsing as well? That is another great tool for research & writing

    -jf
  • I use this feature frequently - as often as possible - whenever I have the inspiration to knock out several posts in one sitting, I can take advantage of posting them in the future and space them out over several hours or days. I use an off-line editor (ecto) that allows for future posting as well.
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