In this tutorial I am going to show you how to schedule a post on a wordpress blog.

There are times when you may wish to schedule when your posts are published to your wordpress blog.

You may be on holiday but want your blog to keep updating with fresh content while you are away or you may want to schedule your content once a week so you don’t have to keep logging in and publishing it.

Whatever the reason this is how you do it.

Step One

Log into your wordpress admin area.

Click Add New under the Posts tab:

This will open the Add New Post window.

Enter you content the same way I showed you in the How To Create A Wordpress Post Tutorial.

Step Two

When you are a happy with the way the post looks instead of clicking publish look for the Publish immediately in the publish section and click the edit link:

This will reveal the date section showing the current date and time.

You can change this to whatever date a time you want the post to publish.

You can also change this if you wish to show a different date for a post you have already published.

Enter the date and time you want the post to publish on your blog for example if I wanted the tutorial your reading to publish in 2 days time instead I would change the date to Dec 08 2009 like this:

Click Ok, you should now see Publish immediately has changed to schedule for and the publish button has changed to Schedule:

Click Schedule and your wordpress post will now publish automatically on the date and time you set in my case 2 days time.

Congratulations you have successfully scheduled a post on your wordpress blog.