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Wordpress has the ability to schedule posts
So you can write a blog or news item
and ask WordPress to publish it at a future date
This is handy if you are going away and you still want content
to be added to the web site and in our case we’ve prepared
Twelve posts inspired by the Twelve Days of Christmas
And what I have done is to schedule each one of those posts
To actually publish on the particular day and I am just going to show you how I do that.
So this is the Dashboard and we go to Posts, All Posts
And here we see our list of scheduled articles
Twelth Day of Christmas, Tenth, we are still waiting for one to come, but ninth, eighth and so on.
So let’s just pick any one and go to Edit.
Now over in the right hand side of the page
We see the Publish box
And there you can change the status of the post
If I just show you that
It could be scheduled, pending review or draft: I am just going to stick with scheduled.
You can change the visibility
Which is the option to make it public, password protected or private
We will stick with public because we want everybody to see this post
And this is the number of revision so as you edit the post it will save each version
and give you the option to go back to a version if you think it is better.
And here is your selection for scheduling
It is straightforward, you click on the edit button
and then add your month, your day
Your year and the time
and then click OK
This button at times changes to schedule
If that’s what you are going to do then just click that but for now I will click Update although I haven’t changed anything
And here you can see that this one is scheduled for January the first
twenty fourteen at eight O’clock in the morning.
If you wanted to change that again you could do so by clicking edit
Now we go back to All Posts and there you can see
These posts are scheduled
Third of January, Second of January
First of January and so on.
So very easy to do. You can tell WordPress when you want to publish a post.
If you are preparing it to be published in the future.
Hope that helps.