Comments on: Blogging’s Most Underused Feature: Future Posts

By: Amalaki

Amalaki — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:49:24 +0000

anyone know when blogspot might start allowing this?

By: 00 | Splat

00 | Splat — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:09:38 +0000

[...] all the aspiring pro-bloggers out there, you must have already read Darren’s post on future publishing. But many times, the post is in a state when it cannot be published and needs a bit more input [...]

By: Top Five Little Known Wordpress Plugins » Not Just Another Blog

Top Five Little Known Wordpress Plugins » Not Just Another Blog — Thu, 10 May 2007 13:49:08 +0000

[...] future posts, so I wont elaborate on it (if you wish you can check out article on this topic at ProBlogger). Instead I am going to present a little known plugin that should help bloggers using Future Posts [...]

By: Write a Better Blog Series In One Sitting

Write a Better Blog Series In One Sitting — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:10:17 +0000

[...] a blog series is to write it all before you hit publish. Just by writing them all up, and use the advanced posting feature to automate the process over a few days (or however long your blog series is), you can kick back [...]

By: Blaine Moore

Blaine Moore — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:27:37 +0000

If you don’t mind ignoring the hard sell, you should use the post schedule ping optimizer (if you have a wordpress plugin):
http://www.runtowin.com/recommends/Ping-Optimizer

It basically will ping things that are future dated and prevent pings when editing old articles. It works pretty well.

By: JoLynn

JoLynn — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:00:27 +0000

I use wordpress and I would have been lost without the ability to future date my posts. I had a trip planned for 4-04 through 4-11, so I did an intense blogging marathon 3 days before leaving and set up my posts. They all went off like clock work and I just checked in each day to verify there weren’t any problems and to reply to comments.

I don’t see myself needing to use this again for a long time, however I love this feature of wordpress.

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:32:20 +0000

Thanks for reminding me about this feature of wordpress! Pure gold! Tried it out yesterday and it worked like a charm. I have been percolating on an idea for a series post and this is the perfect way to get rolling on it.

Thanks a ton!

By: raj

raj — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:01:30 +0000

This is very good advice. I future-date as much as possible on WordPress. I actually dislike Typepad and Movable Type) for this very reason. Both let you future-date but it does not function correctly unless you are the primary author. So when I guest on blogs with these platforms, it messes up my scheduling.

By: Peter Chen

Peter Chen — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:59:38 +0000

Ha. Didn’t know HTML not allowed here. The URL of that post is
http://blogger-tricks.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-to-prepare-post-to-be-published-in.html

By: Peter Chen

Peter Chen — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:58:30 +0000

Been reading about the problems of future posting feature being not available for Blogger. Don’t know how many Blogger users read this blog, but if you happened to be one, and you want to be able to prepare a post to be published in the future automatically (not by saving as draft), there is a work around. Read this post:

How to prepare a post to be published in the future with Blogger

Peter

By: rjlight

rjlight — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:30:00 +0000

yeah, I have done that a few times when I know I will be gone –only one time I set the wrong time…and it was a time-sensitive post – oh well.

By: starleads

starleads — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:22:52 +0000

I guess blogger does nt have this feature. It is helpful no doubt.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 06:31:35 +0000

Yup, use this all the time. I only write when I’m feeling productive (though sometimes it takes some prodding) and then I write like crazy and always have a week’s worth of posts ready to go. Kind of like emergency food stores or something.

By: Jonathan-C.

Jonathan-C. — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:27:04 +0000

Great post Glen, i used the timestamp feature in wordpress all the time, i could use it more, like writing a weeks’ worth of posts in one day and then focus on other stuff, but still gotta find topics and things to talk about, which is hard to do in one day.

By: Gdog

Gdog — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:03:12 +0000

If Blogger could implement a future post feature, that would be icing on the cake.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:10:10 +0000

jorge – not sure what the comment was – I can’t see one. I publish everyone’s comments unless I consider them to be spammy, defamatory or hateful.

Some comments do get caught up in the spam filter mistakenly – apologies if this is what happened.

By: PAULA MOONEY

PAULA MOONEY — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:46:44 +0000

Yes, it will be a wonderful day in heaven when I can write up five Diggable, spankin’ good posts, auto-schedule them on Blogger and have them each publish and auto-ping and auto-submit to Search Engines whilst I suck down a chocolate Martini in Figi…

Are you listening, Blogger techies?

Their developers are pretty good!

By: jorge

jorge — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:31:22 +0000

I wrote a comment recently. I knew you will not publish it. I was in the truth. Desbelieve from people telling you they will help you to ear money for free. You are not an exception. Good luck.

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Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:17:20 +0000

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By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:55:44 +0000

I’ve been using this for a while, although I don’t always set the post date. Often I’ll just save as draft anything that doesn’t matter as to when I publish it, so that I mix up impromptu posts with prewritten ones.

The one trouble, if I understand things right, is whether or not Wordpress will ping at the right time.