I know most of you will say this is very easy. But inexperience bloggers are having problem to schedule a future post and I did face the same problem in my early blogging day. In this blog post, I’m going to explain this as easy as possible with a couple of screenshots.
Note: WordPress version 2.7 is used for the following WordPress post scheduling tutorial.
Scheduling is a very important feature in WordPress and many bloggers depend on it to publish blog posts. The beautiful thing about future scheduling is when the time and date comes around, the scheduled post will automatically be published to the blog.
When you’re creating a new post, the timestamp for a post to be published is defaulted to immediately which you can see from the publish section.
You can click on the edit link and change the date and/or time to something in the future and then click the OK button to confirm. The publish button has now been changed to schedule button.
Once you finish writing or modifying your post content, you can click on the schedule button to schedule the post according to the date and time configured.
Now in the edit post admin screen, you’re able to see the future post entry counting down towards to scheduled date and time.
Note: Be sure to set your timezone correctly as WordPress scheduling system is publishing future post base on your configured timezone. You can change your timezone in Settings->General admin page. Unfortunately WordPress timezone does not support Daylight Savings Time.
Missed Schedule
Every action has some kind of risk, just that whether you’re aware of it. In all version of WordPress, you might be facing missed schedule situation after you have scheduled a blog post. Here is the list of possible cause and you can check with web hosting support if you’re having these issue.
- DNS is not properly setup in web server
- Web server is blocking loopback connection
- Cron job is disabled or having problem to execute when it is triggered
In WordPress 2.7, there is an additional chance to trigger missed schedule which is due to the code changes in scheduling system core file – cron job.
Conclusion
If you don’t have experience in future posting, just go and try it out. You’ll have fun on it and no need to sit in front of your computer when you need to post something at a particular time.
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Schedule post is really good future you can found in WordPress. Blogger/webmaster can doing posts while they are in vacation, don’t need access to internet just need to publish a post.
fyi, I’m using Wordpress ver. 2.62 having this future as well.
Bey Luen, thanks for sharing . . . . . .