One of the best things about being a content creator in the 21st century is the plethora of tools you can use to create better posts. Whether you need a tool to remind you to keep your sentences short or a tool to help your posts reach your target audience, you’ll have no trouble finding it.
However, WordPress users can do many things without the need for additional tools. Anyone who has tried scheduling WordPress posts will tell you that you don’t need a plugin to do it.
In this article, we will show you:
When your post or a page needs to appear online at a certain time, the best way to do it is to schedule WordPress posts.. But perfect timing isn’t the only reason you want to schedule WordPress posts. A more complete list of causes might look like this:
Scheduling posts helps you better manage your website content workload. It may not create articles for you or render your website pages, but it will help you by automating a small part of the publishing process.
The post planning functionality works in the Classic Editor just as it does in Guttenberg. When you want to create a new post, go to Posts > Add New from the dashboard.
If you are using the Classic Editor, you will schedule from the Publish tab on the right side of the screen. By default, publishing is set to “immediately”, but you can change this by clicking “Edit”.
Press it and you will see fields that allow you to choose the date and time you want the post to be published.
Choose a date and time that suits you, and then press the “OK” button.
When you’re done creating the post, simply click the “Schedule” button; Your post will be sent to the broadcast queue.
In Guttenberg you will also point your eyes towards the upper right corner of the screen. but you will be looking for a tab with a different name called “Status & Visibility”. There, you will find the “Publish” option.
After clicking on the word “Immediately” you will see the menu to set the date and time your post will be published.
After selecting the date and time, you will see that “Immediately” changes to the date and time you selected.
When the post is ready, hit the blue “Schedule” button at the top of the screen. Your post will appear online at the time you choose, it’s that easy.
When you schedule a post in WordPress, the status of the post changes to “Scheduled”. You will be able to see the status of a post from the post list right there..
However, if you have a lot of posts planned, it may be difficult or impractical to keep track of one by one.
That’s why you have options at the top of the list that only let you see posts in certain situations, like published, draft, private, or trashed posts. If you have scheduled posts, you’ll see “Scheduled” there as well..
Click on the blue “Scheduled” text and you will get a list of posts containing only scheduled posts you have created.
If you’ve changed your mind and want to publish one of your scheduled posts right away, don’t worry – it’s incredibly easy to do. For starters, you want to go to the post you want to send right away. Edit the post using your editor of choice.
Access the menu you used to schedule the shipment in the first place. Instead of choosing a future date, you can set the current time and date or any time in the past.. The “Schedule” button you used to schedule the post will now change to “Publish” and pressing this button will make your post live.
Sometimes, neither publishing a scheduled post now nor allowing it to be published at the scheduled time is not the option you are looking for. When you want to remove a post from the publishing queue, all you have to do is change its status to “Draft”.
In the Classic Editor, you can change the status of your post in the “Publish” tab. Click the blue text “Edit” next to the current status “Published” and select “Draft” from the drop-down menu that appears.
Clicking the “OK” button changes the status of your post to “Draft” and effectively stops its scheduled publication.
If you use the Gutenberg editor, things are even easier for you. Just at the top of the page, you’ll see a built-in option to change the status of your post to “Draft”.
After clicking the option, you will see a window asking if you want to cancel the shipment. Click the “OK” button and your post will become a draft.
Let’s wrap it up!
Publishing posts or pages at a specific time is a perfect example when it comes to tasks that are candidates for extinction through automation. Most of us have better things to do than set reminders on our websites to publish posts at a specific time, let alone wait for the clock to show the correct time before we can press a button.
WordPress developers were way ahead of you when they added scheduling functionality to the platform. Thanks to them, you can easily schedule your posts without having to jump through unnecessary hoops or straining your resources, although you can schedule posts with a plugin if you want. All you have to do is remember to install them all and let WP do the rest.
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