Stay Inspired With the WordPress Timestamp Feature
Do you have moments of total inspiration when everything falls into place and your blog writing just flows? I bet you do, we all do at some stage or another. But unless you can take advantage of this without losing unnecessary time, you will have to go back into your WordPress admin and publish the posts a few days later.
Not so with the timestamp feature. Instead of saving a draft post and then having to go back to publish you can stager future posts at your peril.
This is especially useful when you are going on holidays. Instead of worrying about keeping up with your publishing schedule, why not prepare some posts ahead of time and then publish them to be released every other day, or whatever your posting schedule might be.
You can find this feature in the right hand side of your posting screen. Just change the date to a future date and the adjust the time if you like and then hit publish. If you forget to click on publish it will only save the post as a draft and unless you go in manually and click edit, then publish it won’t be live.
That’s it, easy peasy.
Now you never have to worry again about not being able to hold that deadline or not keeping up with your schedule on holidays.
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I couldn’t survive without the timestamp feature for my client websites. It allows us to build in a months work of posts in a few days. Then all we have to do is make sure the posts go live on time.
I have just released Import CSV which will allow you to import blog posts from a CSV including a future posted time.
http://www.jayblogger.com/the-birth-of-my-first-plugin-import-csv/
Time stamping is one of the best features of Wordpress!
The timestamp feature is a great way to prepublish mateerial and maintain a steady output. On one of my blogs — between it’s previous web address and it’s current online location — I have published public domain civil war material every day since January 1, 2005. This has ranged from 1 to 10 or more posts a day, but generally averages about 2.
The posts are all tied to the current day in a year of the civil war. Currently I am publishing diary entries of three individuals from the current date in 1864.
Right now, I have material prepublished from one diary out to the end of August and from another to the end of this month.
Th blog is Daily Chronicles of the American Civil War
You touch on an interesting topic that I’ve been thinking about. Should bloggers post on a regular schedule? Or are readers sufficiently Tivoized that they’ll catch what they want when they’re ready?