Learned a New WordPress Trick – Posting Blogs For The Future
I just learned something about wordpress that I didn’t know, many of you probably knew this feature but I just learned it tonight. Did you know you can edit the date of your post and set it to the future, like tomorrow or next week. When you publish your blog post with a future date, it won’t display and actually be available to your readers until that date.
This is the perfect way to write a whole bunch of posts and pre-date them if you will be on vacation, so that your blog updates with new posts every day without you having to do a darn thing while you are on vacation. Of course you can’t write about current events for that day, but for a poetry blog, or philosophy or personal blog, you can create posts just so your blog doesn’t have a few days missing posts.
This was a really neat feature in my opinion.
You just click edit on the right of creating a new post, and change the date for any future date.
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Now before you chafe me with “we knew that, how did you not know that?” Remember, I have only been blogging for about 37 days with wordpress, so I am still new and learning it.
So, I will turn this question into a Spark Contest.
How many of you bloggers alter your post date, to either past or future to either, what are some of the reasons for altering your post date? What benefits do you look for? (Besides trying to age your blog for pay sites).
-Dragon Blogger
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Dragon Blogger,
I use this as my primary means of posting. My blog is for my small business which sells clothing with custom designs. I post every saturday a new design and the product become available. I also post during the week little bits about the business, affiliates, or whatever. Well since I know when a new post needs to come out, at least every saturday and sometimes during the week, I will schedule a whole month or two worth of postings ahead of time. I have made months of designs already so all I need to do is set up the post and I am good to go! I think it's great and now I dont have to wake up at 8:00AM and post like the post says I do!
I use Blogger.com but it has the exact same feature.
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