Schedule Blog Posts In the Future

The majority of bloggers try to follow a publishing schedule. Depending on their frequency, they may post once a month, once a week or once a day (or more!).

Your WordPress site gives you the flexibility to be able to schedule your posts to be published any day in the future and at ay time you want. You can be away on business on vacation, or even sleeping! It doesn’t matter where you are and you do not even have to be near the computer to have the post get published.

Here is the way you can schedule your posts:

Login into your WordPress Dashboard and create a new post (or you can use one that is draft more). As long as you are editing a post, you can schedule it.

1. Compose/write your post as you normally do.
2. Instead of clicking the publish button, look just about it and you will see an option that reads “Publish immediately Edit.”
3. Click the “Edit” link next to “Publish immediately” and a date picker will show up. Pick your Month, Day, Year, Hour, and minute that you want your post to be published. By the way, the time is in 24-hour time, so if you want to publish at 1:00pm enter the hour 13.
4. Once you have the date and time set for when you want this post to eb published, click the “OK” button. This is a step that is often overlooked, so make sure you do it!
5. The “Publish immediately” text should now change to “Schedule for,” with whatever date and time you have chosen and the big “Publish” button now reads, “Schedule”
6. Click the “Schedule” button and go do what you have to do – go to work, ride your bike, surf the net, follow me on Twitter (@WPSiteHelp), or whatever! At the date and time you selected, your post will automatically get published!