Sarah Arrow

It shocks some people to find that I don’t constantly sit at the laptop writing blogs, non stop all day long…. I write them in advance, sometimes weeks, sometimes days. I then schedule them and check back when I remember to make sure they have posted

Why would people want to schedule their blogs? A fast moving magazine blog like, Birds on the Blog posts 3 times a day Monday to Friday, I cannot be hovering over the publish button at 10am, 2pm and 7pm everyday! Where would my life be? What if your target market is asleep when you normally post due to a time difference? Scheduling your blogs can take a lot of pressure off of you to blog every day, you can have one creative/writing day like I do and then schedule ‘em. It’s blogging and having a life!

How do you schedule your blogs?

On the right on your WordPress back office, when you are in the ‘add new post’ section you will see

Click on Edit which is next to Visibility: Public

Select the date and time you would like you blog to post at

Then click the ok button. Be careful here, a double click will send your post to the trash!

Double check that you have done all the things you need to do, add tags, images and that your links work

Then hit the Schedule button.

You can schedule months in advance, days or just hours. It means you have a blog presence even when you are on holiday.

Sarah