Joel Says Blog How to Schedule Posts in WordPress Without Using Plugins

Welcome back WordPress user !! Today we are going to see how to schedule posts in WordPress easily without using any plugins or custom scripts. Why does it matter scheduling posts? Why can't you just publish it when it is ready? Well, lets take an example situation where you need to schedule articles. Think that you are publishing new posts daily in your blog, and you are going to be unavailable for a few days. In this case you don't want to give up posting new articles and loosing your regular readers. How do you manage this situation? Simple, you just schedule new articles in advance. This is actually a cool hidden feature by WordPress in default that many of us don't know about. How to Schedule Posts in WordPress Without Plugins This is actually an easy thing. You don't have to install any plugin for this. You will be writing new articles normally and scheduling its publishing date to future dates. WordPress will take care of remaining things. Just follow below steps to schedule posts in WordPress. Here are few others "Without Plugin" tricks for WordPress, How to Add Author Box in WordPress Post Without Plugin How to Display Related Posts Without Plugin in WordPress Export WordPress Comments to Excel Sheet Without Plugin 301 Redirect All 404 Pages in WordPress Without Plugin Insert Ads Inside Post Content Without WordPress Plugin How to Enable PHP and Shortcodes in Widgets Without Plugin 1. Click on Edit Near to Publish Immediately When you are ready with your article and before firing "Publish" button, click on "Edit" link which is available next to "Publish immediately". Please see below image. 2. Set Your Preferred Time to Publish Now you will get few input boxes where you can set your preferred date and time, when you want that article to be published. You can even select past dates (In this case your articles will be published immediately with given date). 3. Click on Schedule Button to Schedule Post Now when you select a future date your "Publish" button will automatically change to "Schedule". All you have to do is clicking on that button. That's all ! We have now instructed WordPress that this articles needs to be published on the given date. This simple feature will help you to publish articles according to your visitors time zone, even if you are living in a different zone. All these without using any plugins!! Publishing articles on right time will help you to get more readers. Otherwise you may loose your normal visitors too. So happy blogging folks I hope you enjoyed this article. As always, please feel free to comment your feedback and points down here. Thanks for reading.The post How to Schedule Posts in WordPress Without Using Plugins appeared first on Joel Says.