How to Schedule Posts
What You Will Learn
You will learn how to schedule your posts so you can write them in advance and set them to automatically post at a later time or date.
Let's Do This!
Step 1:
Write your post as you normally would. Then click on "Post Options" on the bottom left.
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Step 2:
The screen will expand and you'll see a bunch of options. Click on the button for "Scheduled at" You will then be given two more boxes for the date and time. Set those boxes to whatever date and time you want to schedule your post.
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Step 3:
Click the "Publish" button like you normally would. Your post will then be published at the date and time you set.
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ReplyDeletePshaw.
I figured this out relatively recently. It's a great thing to do. Especially when you're going on vacation.
ReplyDeleteOut of curiosity, did you schedule this post? :-)
Awww that is how you do it! Thanks Smalls :)
ReplyDeletei tried doing this the other day and it didnt work out! i didnt know you were supposed to push the publish button... I just saved it and quit... FAIL! thanks for doing this :)
ReplyDeleteLogan, HAHAHAHAHAA I BEAT YOU TO IT!!! HAHAHA! *does tiny touchdown dance*
ReplyDelete*cough* I mean, I'm sorry Logan :)
Alison, it works very well when you have a lot of work too (which is what I need it for and not because I'm on awesome vacations.... :P
And, why yes, I did schedule this post!
Nic, You're welcome!
The Lovely Getaway, I kept doing that and wondering why it never scheduled. I was even nervous the first time I hit publish for a scheduled post! I was afraid it wouldn't work and would post immediately. Silly me.
Of course it's a tiny touchdown dance. In your case, it's probably a really teeny tiny touchdown dance.
ReplyDeleteYou know. Because you're so SMALL.
Oh. Snap. ;)
Curses! My attempt at subtle punnery was foiled! Punnery? Ack, I need to go to bed. Of course now I'll probably be laughing in my sleep thankyouverymuch. Seriously, when you write your book you need to include a disclaimer warning people not to read it in public or before bedtime due to bouts of spontaneous laughter and sever side splitting.
ReplyDeleteThat's a really good post for the newbies!
ReplyDeleteAnd LOL at you and Logan...hahaha
My goodness I've been posting for over a year and never realized that
ReplyDeleteLol, LM Preston. I'm glad I did know it was there, saved me a lot of trouble posting on busy days.
ReplyDeleteGreat advice. It took me a while to figure out how to schedule post. I was happy when I finally did. I think that as a newbie blogger, it important to know how cause it saves a lot of time.
ReplyDeletel love that blogger lets you do this, really helps when you are busy or going on hoilday, although sometimes l have scheduled it and it posted it anyway!
ReplyDeleteI love scheduling posts in advance! Its helped me be able to go to work, but still have some content uploaded.
ReplyDeleteSmalls, this is truly embarrassing, but it took me forever to figure out how to schedule a post. Now I can't imagine my life without this feature. LOL
ReplyDeleteLove your tutorials.
I'd be lost without the possibility of scheduling posts. There's nothing that feels so great as being able to line up a weeks worth of posts, before you go on vacation or something, knowing that your blog will keep on humming right along!
ReplyDeleteWhoa!? I didn't know you could do that! Thanks so much, see I learn so much from reading!
ReplyDeleteSomething new I have learned today! Thanx!
ReplyDeleteI had this feature on Quick Blogcast. I'm so glad I have it on Wordpress. Definitely usefully when we don't want to be on our blog every day!
ReplyDeleteLol, I only learned how to do this last month. It's a very useful feature :)
ReplyDeleteSuper easy! How did I never see that there? LOL. Thanks for sharing with us! <3
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you all found this helpful! It took me a very long time to realize I could schedule posts, and then even longer to figure out how! The dense part of me would have appreciated a big, clear "Schedule" button instead of having to click "publish" That really threw me off.
ReplyDeleteI have been doing this wrong for so long I just thought my PC was flukey. I never hit publish. Man the time this could have saved me if I'd read that last bit! Thanks Small! Again, your the greatest!
ReplyDeleteHeather
Heather, Aw, I did the same exact thing for a while and I thought it just wasn’t working too. It makes me nervous every time I hit publish (I’m always afraid it will publish it right then). :P
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