Put WordPress on Auto-Pilot, or write now publish later
- Posted On: November 27th, 2006
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Every once in awhile I like to throw in a tip for WordPress users who find their way here thanks to the diggIntegrator plugin. Spurred on by a post over at ProBlogger, I started looking for a method to post content to my blog at times when I couldn't otherwise be sitting at my PC. What I found, which is thankfully built into WordPress, is a method of writing a post and setting it to be published at a later time or date.
Let me stress again, you write the post and WordPress just waits to post it.
It's really simple too.
Depending on the version of WordPress you're using you'll want to move to "Advanced Mode" when writing your posts - in WordPress 2.0 this is the default setting.
When writing the actual post look for the "Post TimeStamp" box located on the right of the page. In this box you can change the date and time to reflect exactly when you want the post to be published. Just remember to click "Edit Timestamp."
That's it... nothing more to it.
As for when to post? You can check out the previously mentioned ProBlogger post for some tips.
8 Responses to “Put WordPress on Auto-Pilot, or write now publish later”
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April 4th, 2007 at 9:12 am
Very useful indeed! I hadn’t realised it could handle scheduled posting, till now I’ve been writing stuff, saving it and then manually publishing when I wanted it to appear!
Thanks Bill!
- Zath
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April 24th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Thank you, thank you, thank you. It’s cool things like this that make me so glad I switched from Blogger.
Sara
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June 7th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Wow! you could really incorperate this into an Article Marketing type of plan. Just type up several different original post “articles” and have them submit at certain times. There is a method to this and can be summed up in 3 very simple steps…
You will write an article that is “optimized” using the best “keyword phrases”.
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June 20th, 2008 at 5:43 am
I’ve been using custom.css technique since I first discovered your site for a set of blogs I manage that need common elements. This goes hand in hand with that. I’m a php guy, so I don’t know why I haven’t made this leap already. I just tend to think of WP (especially since we are using MU) as a beast I shouldn’t poke too much.
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August 7th, 2008 at 3:16 am
Ok, giving it a shot now.. but does the the post status need to be set to published?? or does it need to be set to published??
- Alexander Higgins
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