I love WordPress. The free WordPress doesn’t allow you to make money, but the one you host on your own servers does. We run our money making websites on BlueHost where it’s easy to install and use WordPress as your blogging platform. WordPress has great free themes as well as plug-ins. But, I’ve finally found the coolest feature of WordPress: the ability to use the time stamp feature to schedule your posts.
Okay, okay. Professional bloggers probably already know this. It’s only taken me several months to stumble on it by accident. I knew that you could change the post date anywhere in the past (and change history to allow you to trick companies like PayPerPost), but when I was hosted with blogger and we changed the date, it automatically published the post then and there. So we just assumed that WordPress would operate the same.
With WordPress, you can compose posts today and then set the Post Timestamp in the future. WordPress won’t show that new post until the posting date. That means, that I can write several posts on the weekend, and then schedule the publication date so that our readers get new material every day (instead of a huge block of posts on Sunday.) In fact, this post was written on Jan 21, 2008, but it won’t appear in the blogosphere until later in the week. If you even click on Manage > Posts, you can filter the list of posts to see only the scheduled posts.
As far as we can tell, this system works. We currently subscribe to receive updates to our blog via RSS feed as well as via the email newsletter. We published several posts yesterday, but set the post timestamp for today, and the next day. When we visited this blog, we didn’t see the new posts yet. When we looked at our RSS feed reader, we couldn’t see the new posts yet. When we checked our email, the syndicated email feed only includes yesterday’s post. It doesn’t our newly scheduled posts. But when the scheduled time rolled around, our website automatically published the post.
Automation. Scheduled Posts. I love WordPress.
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