How To Schedule a Future Post in Wordpress

Critiqued by Cowboytf | October 11, 2007 .

This is very easy to do but I have been receiving a few questions on exactly how to accomplish this. I’ll explain this as easy as possible with a couple of pictures to give you a visual.

After you have created your future post, you’ll need to look at your right-hand column for this:

As you can see, I’ve scheduled this post for Monday, October 15 2007. You need to make sure that you check the box for Edit Timestamp. This is very important because if you only change the date without checking the box, your post will go live immediately.

Hit publish and go to your dashboard to see your post under Scheduled Entries.

Note: Be sure you have your timezones correct and that they match your web hosts also. This mainly applies to web hosts located in places like India for example. This only applies if you are time precise picky;) I am not. As long as it’s in the same day is fine with me.

Happy Future Posting:)

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7 Comments so far

Susan Suarez October 11, 2007 3:56 pm

I love using the future posts feature.
Lynne October 11, 2007 5:10 pm

Thanks! I like that your instructions are simple and to the point. I’ve wondered how to do this and now even I can follow these instructions! :-D
Zhu October 11, 2007 7:43 pm

I didn’t even know I could do that ! Good thing you’re around ! ;;)
Cowboytf October 12, 2007 3:48 pm

I hope they helped. I did try to simplify them as best I could :)
Erin October 13, 2007 12:35 pm

Thanks for this! I tried doing this before and the post went live immediately so I gave up. I guess I didn’t check the right box :duh: I’ll give it a try again since I have some posts I want to write up this weekend. Thanks again!
mummifiedx5 October 27, 2007 7:10 am

Thanks for the info :) I knew I could do it on Blogspot but wasn’t sure how to do it on my wordpress blog.
Cheers~ :D
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