How to Use the Wordpress Timestamp Feature
Posted on Oct 19, 2007 in Wordpress
One of the frustrating parts about blogging is sometimes finding inspiration on topics to write about. One of the more frustrating parts of blogging is matching your moments of inspiration with spreading out your blog posts to allow for a relatively even amount of postings. A lot of blogs that I read make it seem like all the writer does all day long is sit around behind the screen, banging away on the keyboard.
This is where the Wordpress Timestamp feature can pay huge dividends to your blogging efforts.
The Wordpress Timestamp feature can save you a lot of time when it comes to creating and publishing your posts. Lets say that you have a day where you are really feeling inspired about several topics, your writing is really flowing and you have some great ideas for posts. You have written 3 or 4 posts, but you would like to spread them out because you are getting ready to go on vacation, or have that looming deadline for a project at work that you must complete.
Using the Timestamp feature will help you to spread your posts out over a few days and publish them for you.
Here’s how it works.
- Take a post that you have written and are ready to publish, including proper tagging, images, etc.
- Go to the “Post Timestamp” on your post page and expand it.
- Select the “Edit timestamp” by clicking on it, there should now be a checkmark in the box.
- Edit and select the date and time that you want your post published.
Now there is one important step left in editing your post for future publication.
You now need to click on the “Publish” button. If you don’t do this and just click on “Save”, it will save your post as a draft and not publish it when you have specified.
This feature has saved me quite a bit of time and frustration of trying to write posts when I have lots of other things going on. I hope this helps you in your moments of inspiration and blogging!
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The timestamp feature is one of my favourite parts of WordPress. I use it on every post.
It is a timesaver! I had that day of inspiration where everything was just flowing, and I knew I was going to be busy later, so it really works and saves time!
Sounds cool…I will try for the next post (not right now since nothing is flowing out of my pen right now
I appreciate understanding how to use that feature. I like the plug in you have used for share this article! Can you direct me to where I can download it? I am going to share this article on Propeller right now, thanks for this information too.
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Edward, it is the social bookmarking reloaded plugin. You can find it here: http://www.valent-blog.eu/social-bookmarking-reloaded/
This was exactly what I was looking for, and it was already there and I didn’t even know
Thanks!!
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