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How to Auto-Schedule Your WordPress Blog Posts

Last updated on January 15th, 2016 by Editorial Staff
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How to Auto-Schedule Your WordPress Blog Posts

By default WordPress allows you to schedule your posts to be published later. But we’ve often seen people forgetting to schedule their posts. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a to automatically schedule WordPress posts? In this article, we will show you how to auto-schedule social sharing for your WordPress posts.

Auto-scheduling WordPress posts

Why Auto-Schedule WordPress Posts?

Most bloggers schedule posts to be published at a fixed time. However, sometimes you may forget to schedule them.

One way to deal with this situation is to use an editorial calendar that shows you when you have posts scheduled to be published.

We use Edit Flow on our websites to manage our editorial workflow.

But wouldn’t it be great if you could just setup an automatic system that can schedule blog posts for you? Think of a feature like Buffer or HootSuite auto-schedule for your social media.

Publish to schedule is a WordPress plugin that can automatically schedule your posts.

Let’s see how you can set it up and configure it.

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Setting up Publish to Schedule

First thing you need to do is install and activate the Publish to Schedule plugin. Upon activation, simply go to Settings » Publish to Schedule to configure plugin settings.

Choose days and number of posts to publish

First you need to choose the number of posts to publish on each day. Enter 0 for the days when you don’t want to publish any posts.

After that you need to choose the time interval. By default this schedule is set to 24 hours, but you can change it based on your needs.

The plugin will automatically do the scheduling. You can see when your post will be scheduled to appear, or you can choose not to see it. Select all information or just do the magic under the information section.

Choose how much information you want to see next to publish button

Don’t forget to click on the save all changes button to store your settings.

Writing Posts with Publish to Schedule Plugin

Create a new WordPress post or edit an existing draft. You will notice some changes under the publish metabox.

Publish meta box with Publish to Post plugin

The most obvious different is the replacement of publish button with Pub. to Schedule button.

If you selected to show information in the plugin settings, then you will see when your post will be scheduled as you press the publish to schedule button.

Remember, you can always override this schedule by defining your own schedule like you would normally do.

That’s all, we hope this article helped you auto-schedule your WordPress blog posts. You may also want to see our tips on mastering the WordPress visual editor.

If you liked this article, then please subscribe to our YouTube Channel for WordPress video tutorials. You can also find us on Twitter and Facebook.

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  1. Luis Santos says:
    Aug 13, 2017 at 5:00 am

    Hello,

    I’m looking for a plugin to make sure the posts do not go overboard. Our site has several authors and we try to have the articles published at intervals of between 30 and 60 minutes.

    We have already tested a few, but many have been discontinued by their authors. This would be close if it were not the issue of randomizing. He needed something with only a lapse of time.

    Any suggestion?

    Reply
  2. Sarah says:
    Nov 17, 2016 at 11:22 pm

    Is it possible to schedule a post to appear EVERY Monday? E.g. the same post every Monday?

    Reply
  3. Johan Hulitn says:
    Sep 9, 2016 at 12:44 am

    Is it possible to schedule a wordpress post with a schedule youtube video. Let me explain. If I schedule a youtube video to 12 pm and then schedule that video into a schedule wordpress post that relize at 12.30 pm. Is that possible?

    Reply
  4. Mandy says:
    Apr 4, 2016 at 9:24 am

    Is there a limit to the number of scheduled posts that can be loaded at any one time on a WordPress site? eg if I wanted to load 50 posts – 1 per day – would that be a problem?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Apr 4, 2016 at 7:22 pm

      No.

      Reply
  5. Hassan says:
    Nov 25, 2015 at 7:46 am

    Hi WP… Do u have Telegram Channel ? it’s easy way to see your idea,dear friend..thanks

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    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Nov 25, 2015 at 10:00 pm

      No sorry we don’t have one yet. Meanwhile you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

      Reply
  6. Charles says:
    Nov 23, 2015 at 12:02 pm

    Hello,

    Yet again you have proven that this site is the world’s best in terms of resourceful contents for WordPress website developers, designers and bloggers. Please keep it up! VERY HELPFUL POST.

    Reply

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