My normal blogging routine is to write my blog posts on Sunday. I may get a post or two done ahead of that, but for the week, I have things finalized on Sunday.
Except this week. (I took a lazy Sunday and read all day. It was nice.)
I am writing this on Tuesday. I am going to schedule this to post Wednesday.
If you're on Blogger, you probably already know how to do this. When you open up a new post, "Published on" is right there in the Post settings sidebar.
If it's not open, just click on the arrow. (It's usually open when you open a new post.)
"Automatic" will be selected, and the date and time will be the current date and time. As you can see above, I've clicked on "Set date and time". Then I selected the date on the calendar thingy. (If you want to go ahead months, use the little arrows next to the month and year at the top.)
Once you've selected the date, you can select the time. (You can select the time first.) Just click on the time, and a wheel with all the hour and half hour times will pop up. (You can type in a time instead.)
And that's it. Type in your post as normal, and then hit "Publish".
It'll show on your posts screen as "Scheduled" with the day it's scheduled to go live. And that's it. It's ready to go.
Now I need to go and get Thursday's post ready...
I’m an expert at scheduling my posts.
ReplyDeleteI schedule a lot of mine. Some set for a few hours later than I usually post so I can link them that day if needed. I still obsess over them and check them for errors, so I don't know why I bother to schedule them at all!
ReplyDeleteSame.
DeleteI schedule almost all of my posts ahead of time. I see blogger is adding some features, which I do not use, and I hope they don’t mess with this schedule in advance feature because it is so easy.
ReplyDeleteSame here.
DeleteThis is really helpful. I'm wanting to get more into blogging. I'm currently in the cabinet painting industry, but would love to start blogging more. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteGlad this was helpful.
DeleteI used to schedule most of my posts, but haven't been able to get ahead of myself since I jumped in on NaBloPoMo at the last minute. I suppose I'll get back to scheduling once I get though this month. Enjoy the rest of the day. :)
ReplyDeleteI usually have 30 posts scheduled to post. I blog ahead quite a bit.
ReplyDeletethecontemplativecat here. I usually have 5 or so scheduled, and some drafts waiting. I didn't know this in 2010 but have finally figured it out.
ReplyDeleteI think most of us know how to do this. I just had no ideas for what to write for today.
DeleteI did not know that. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteGlad this post was useful.
DeleteThank you, I wasn't aware of this option / possibility.
ReplyDeleteGlad it was useful.
DeleteThank you. I didn't know about this.
ReplyDeleteI was sure no one needed this post. I'm glad I was wrong.
DeleteI do this all the time. That's why many of my posts say 12:30 a.m.
ReplyDeleteI go for 6 AM, which probably isn't great as I'm on the west coast, so that's later morning for the rest of you.
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