You know that outsourcing article writing and scheduling is one of the things you can do to save time for other things. This is why it’s no surprise to me that scheduling posts on WordPress sites is one of my most popular services. I have to confess, it’s one of my favorite tasks to do. That may be due to the fact that I have a time saving secret to scheduling posts.
When I first started bulk scheduling posts for myself and then later for others, I had to switch back and forth from the post list to a calendar. I also had to recite the childhood poem “Thirty days hath September…” to remind myself how many days were in the month. Scheduling posts in this manner only added a minute or so to an article’s post time. When I added a lot of articles at one time, it could add an hour to the task’s total time.
I found my secret weapon to saving time when I scheduled posts when I was looking through the WordPress plugin directory. I downloaded and installed the Future Posts Calendar plugin. I had no idea how much easier it would make posting!
The plugin adds a small calendar below or beside each post, including the “new post” page. The calendar shows the month and days of the week that a posts have already been scheduled. Best of all, the calendar dates are highlighted (green) if you have an article scheduled to post on that day. This makes it easy to tell at a glance where you should start scheduling new posts.
Whether you schedule posts to go live every day or a few times a week, this plug in saves you time when scheduling posts to your site or blog. If you have someone scheduling posts for you, this little time saving secret can also save you money! Your assistant won’t have to include any “switch over” time in your bill because he/she has to change over to the post screen to check on post dates. Sure, this amount of time isn’t much BUT, if you consider the volume, it can really add up to a lot of wasted time.
Need to do more than see when posts have been scheduled? Here is a really cool plugin that I recommend. It’s the the WordPress Editorial Calendar, which is free and can be downloaded in the WordPress repository. Rather than take up a lot of your time telling you about this really nice plugin, just take a look at this video to find out how it too can help you save time while scheduling WordPress posts.
If you need help installing the plugins or need someone to schedule the posts for you, let me know.
