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Schedule Your Posts in WordPress

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Schedule Your Posts in WordPress

There is a certain time in a day when each site gets its most amount of users. Now if you live in a different time zone then your audiences then it becomes a problem if your peek time is 3 a.m. Or maybe you are going for a one week vacation, but you don’t want to abandon your blog. How do you fix these problems?

Simple, You schedule your posts in WordPress. This function allows you to stay ahead of yourself by finishing up articles in advance and have them ready. Or you can prepare for a busy week ahead of time and have the articles ready and up to because you wrote them in advance.

How Do You Schedule a Post in WordPress?

Once you are done writing the post, before hitting publish you need to look at the option right above the publish button which reads “Publish immediately”.

Schedule Your Posts in WordPress

Follow the steps above and you can now schedule posts in WordPress.

Consistent timing is what some users prefer. So if you write a blog post at 7:30 a.m, so users can read it with their coffee in the morning, then continue to do so because it will keep that user loyal to your website. If you decide to change times around, they might have to find another coffee read blog. Also sometimes users are eager to read your new post, so it gives them a time to expect new post.


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Comments

  1. Stuart Wooster says:

    I’ve tried scheduling posts in my site but it keeps missing the schedule and then meaning manually publishing them still.

  2. mahen says:

    Thanx, I was looking for the same thing, One thing i didn’t get is the time we enter will local time or server time??

    • Editorial Staff says:

      You can change the time zone in WordPress under the Settings section. Once you get it to the right time zone, then you can enter your local time :)

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