Automatic Blogging with word press
- By Lucie Battaini
- Published 05/12/2008
- Blogging Tips
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>Building a steady and reliable blog readership requires the blog to be frequently updated. Which, by a number of a webmasters, is often thought of as a hassle. However, if you use Word Press as your blogging platform, then you have a fantastic automation feature available which allows you to work to your schedule and not be a slave to your blog. You can sit down to write posts according to whatever schedule you prefer to keep and then just set the blog to post them on the dates and times you prefer.
>All you have to do to begin some automatic blogging and to take advantage of this fabulous time saving feature is to click on the ‘edit timestamp’ box and enter the date and time that you want the post to appear to the public before you click publish. The post will show up as a scheduled entry in your admin dashboard but it won’t show up on the blog until the time you set.
>One little quirk to the system involves ‘pinging’. When you first installed your blog you probably set it to ‘ping’ the popular blog directories and let them know when you publish a new post. When you schedule an entry, the blog knows not to make the post public, but it still sends a ping – which can create some confusion.
