Comments on: Use WordPress TimeStamp to improve blogging productivity

By: Nichole Fausey-Khosraviani

Nichole Fausey-Khosraviani — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:29:33 +0000

Thank you very much for writing this. When looking for information on back-dating, I only found old posts by WordPress itself and they were just not clear enough. Thank you, also, for using a graphic.

Much appreciation,
Nichole

By: sdk

sdk — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:21:40 +0000

thx for your quick reply Marko…

the thing is, there is no “scheduled” in the status drop down menu, just “draft” and “pending review”

important to note that all of these drafts are scheduled in the past – there are only two people whom edit this blog and i’m the only admin who would mess with that part of it (the other is just an author) – and i know i didn’t schedule these posts – there are older posts that weren’t scheduled in case you were wondering if all of them were at some point

i’m wondering if a plugin could have done it?

regardless, my boss is frustrated as she doesn’t want to have to change the date every time she wants to publish an old draft…

By: Marko Saric

Marko Saric — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:53:03 +0000

@sdk – Hmm not sure now without having a look at it, but why not just set it to be published one minute from now… almost like publish immediately. A quick fix.

Or try the “Status: Scheduled” and click on Edit and see what you can do there.

By: sdk

sdk — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:31:47 +0000

does anyone know how to reset the date so that it says publish immediately again? for some reason some of my posts got auto scheduled without me doing it – i need to covert them back

thanks for your help!

By: Renter

Renter — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:14:04 +0000

I have a problem with the Post Timestamp utlity. Once used to a post the Time is staying the same even when you make changes on the post. On other post where the timestamp was not used the day and time of the post are changed on every save. This appear also in the Sitemap. I think this is important and I am wondering how to change the date on the post with timestamp originaly.

By: silentgirl

silentgirl — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:44:59 +0000

I never once scheduled my entries but this sounds really productive and I’m definitely gonna make full use of it. thanks for the great article!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:25:23 +0000

The ability to schedule posts was available in previous WP versions, but 2.7 has made it much more accessible.

I have a Boston based music blog and I do daily show listings. I’m on a mac but I find doing the show listings in Windows Live Writer is much more efficient so I use VMware. With WP2.6 I would be hesitant to schedule posts within Windows because it was unreliable, but now I do it without hesitation. Recently, I’ve been doing a week of show listings in a sitting, which is great!

Cheers,
Aaron
Enough Cowbell

By: Scott Mahler

Scott Mahler — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:27:02 +0000

I’ve actually used this before, and it is so helpful. You can take one full day to write a full week’s worth of posts, and spend the rest of the week on promoting them. The only problem I’ve had is the fact that sometimes during the week something big comes up in the news and I have to write about it and post it immediatly. That being said, all I have to do is reset the schedule for one of my other posts.

By: Marko

Marko — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:35:44 +0000

@Gerald Weber – Yeah, we still need to write the posts. You never know but next WP version might be writing posts automatically hehe

@Shirley – I know what you mean, but have learned to take it easy with the publish button recently.

By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:42:55 +0000

No doubt that time stamp is a really cool feature.

However this doesn’t exactly explain how some blog are able to publish daily articles. In other words it will come in handy if you write 10 articles and schedule the to each post daily but it will not create the time needed to write the 10 posts.