Use WordPress TimeStamp to improve blogging productivity

Did you ever wonder how Problogger.net and other famous bloggers keep publishing posts daily? Some days even several times a day. How come their blog machine is so well oiled? Are they online all the time? Every day? Or do they have assistants working for them publishing their posts?

The answer is WordPress TimeStamp. WordPress has this great built in feature that allows you to schedule your blog posts to be published in the future. You can write your blog post today and set it to be published automatically at any time you wish.

I use it and it definitely improves my blogging productivity. It saves me a lot of time when it comes to blog posting. It helps spread my blog posts over a few days and helps me keep a constant flow of new blog articles being published.

You can use TimeStamp feature to schedule blog posts to be published while you are away on holidays. It is a great way of ensuring that your blog does not become inactive while you are away.

Or you could simply write all your posts at the beginning of the week and schedule them throughout the week to be published automatically. Then you can take some time away from blog post writing and focus on research and promotion.

If you have inspiration on topics to write about it is a good idea to maintain a backlog of several blog posts in the WordPress timestamp. This way you know you have posts coming up and it will make you less stressful. You will have time to concentrate on researching, marketing or finding good topics for future posts.

How to use WordPress TimeStamp

Write your post as you would normally. Take a look at “Publish” section in the right side of your post. Where it says “Publish immediately” click on edit. Now you will have the option to select a date and time you want your post to be published. Select the date  and time and click on OK.

When you have confirmed the date you want your post to be published, the “Publish” button will become “Schedule” button. You will also have a “Scheduled for” date and time.

If you push the “Schedule” button your post will be automatically published at the chosen date and time.

Hopefully this quick tip is useful to you. Please subscribe to my RSS news feed as I will have some more blogging tips in the future.