How to schedule posts in advance on WordPress
When you access the screen for writing a new post, on the right you will find some boxes with various options.
The one we will delve into in this guide is the first one, the one called “Publish”.
Inside this section you will find the buttons for save your draft, preview the post and publish it.
You will also find three additional entries:
- state: which allows you to see the current status of the post and change it, for example, from "Draft" to "Published." This feature is very useful, for example, if you want to change the status of already published content, making it a draft again.
- Visibility: This option determines whether your content will be publicly visible, private (i.e., visible only to you), or password protected (i.e., visible only to those with the access key you set).
- Publish: the third and final option is the one we are interested in!
By default, this option is configured so that the content is published "Immediately". By clicking "Edit", however, you can set a day and time to publish the post.
When you click OK, you'll see the blue "Publish" button change to "Schedules." At this point, your post isn't scheduled yet; You will need to click on “Schedules” to have it queued and published on the day and time you set.
That’s all, this is the native functionality for scheduling posts in advance in WordPress.
Simple, right?
Now that you know how to use it, you can write your posts in advance and schedule them even while you're on vacation or when you can't write anyway.
Let's now look at some plugins that extend this functionality, making it even more useful.
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WP Missed Schedule Fix Failed Future Posts
This tool does not actually implement any additional functionality. Instead, it serves to ensure that the native one for scheduling posts in advance in WordPress works correctly.
When you schedule a post, there is a so-called cron job which must work automatically to ensure that publication occurs on the day and time you set.
Sometimes, however, it doesn't work and posts aren't published or are published late. There are several reasons for this:
- there are conflicts with plugins,
- there are configuration problems related to the server,
- there are configuration problems related to the database,
- there are DNS related problems,
etc.
The plugin WP Missed Schedule Fix Failed Future Posts it serves to solve these problems and ensure that the scheduled posts are published at the right time.
Editorial Calendar is a popular plugin for managing and scheduling your blog's editorial calendar.
What is an editorial calendar? “Simply,” it is the list of all the posts you are going to publish, in chronological order.
When you install the plugin, you will find a new item called “Calendar” in your Dashboard, under Posts.
Clicking on it opens a a real calendar, within which you can add new posts and assign them the status of “Draft”, “Pending Review” or “Scheduled”. For scheduled posts, you can also change the publishing time.
This plugin is especially useful if you work with multiple contributors on content creation and want to keep track of everyone's work.
