One extremely time saving publishing feature in Wordpress is the Timestamp option. Yet, not many people use this to their advantage. Some don’t even know it exists.
After you’ve written a post, check the “Edit Timestamp” option, and select the publishing date. Then, click on “Publish”. In your WP dashboard, you should see the post shedule for future posting, like this:
This only works if you click on “Publish”. If you click on “Save and Continue Editing” or “Save” it will not queue the post for publishing.
With the timestamp option, you’re not limited to creating posts when you need to publish them. You can just as easily create posts for the entire week, set them to auto-publish each day, and get on that plane to enjoy your weekend vacation!
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Thanks Gobala, have always wondered how to do that.
Did you know that unscrupulous companies try to charge for similar functionality?
Hi Tom,
The difference with the software you mentioned, is that it also post articles automatically to your site, which the default Timestamp option doesn’t do.
If you’re looking for automation tools you may want to read my autoblogging report.
One other thing to consider is that you can vary the time of posting.
If all your posts appear to have been created at the same time it does look a bit odd.
The future publishing facility built into WordPress is probably best used in conjunction with some kind of modified ping mechanism. There are a few plugins available to fix the ping system so it doesn’t fire on all your future posts.
Far better to ping the various update services as each post goes ‘live’ on the date you set it to.