How to Schedule Blog Posting in WordPress

Posted on August 30, 2007
Filed Under WordPress Admin, WordPress Blogging |

WordPress provides useful configuration features such as Post Timestamp to allow you schedule blog posting in a planned manner. When you publish an new article, the Timepstamp is set to the publishing time by default. If you set the Timestamp to a future date, then the published article is on-hold until the date specified in Post Timestamp. That’s how you schedule articles to be posted in future days.

Consistent posting is important to blogging profitability. If you stop blogging in a few days, you would see the traffic decreases and profits drop. Thus, if you plan to go vacation next week, you may want to write a dozen of articles before you leave, and publish them with Timestamps of next weekdays. Then when you enjoy your time-off, people still see new articles posted every day on your blog.

When you get time and on the right mode, you may write 20 posts a day, but posting 20 articles on a blog is overwhelming. It’s best to distribute postings evenly by scheduling, like 2 to 5 articles per day. You don’t know when you’ll get more blogging time. A friend of mine told me he published 50 article on his blog last Monday. What happened was, there was a big storm, and he figured out that the road would be nasty so he called for sick in the Morning. Then he just spent the whole day blogging. But he posted all of the 50 articles one after another the same day. I told him he should use the Post Timestamp to schedule some of articles for future posting.

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