Scheduling a Blogger Post

Blogger has a new feature currently available only in draft mode. It allows you to write a post now and have it automatically posted at some point in the future. Let's say you've written that great 10 part series on the mating ritual of the mosquito, but you don't want to publish the whole thing at once. You can upload all 10 pieces to blogger and have it publish an installment each day or week until they are all uploaded.

I think it's a pretty neat feature. Some people in our church sent me a link to a YouTube video via email several months back. I thought it was great, and since it dealt with the passion of Christ, I wanted to embed it on our church website just before Easter. I went ahead and wrote up the post, and saved it as a draft. Now all I had to do was remember to come back in early March and publish it. Well I forgot. It's there now. Although I have an early March date on the post, it was actually mid April before it went up.

With this new feature all I would have had to do is go ahead and set the date and time that I wanted it published back when I wrote it. Then it would have automatically shown up at the appropriate time.

How to do it:

1. Log into blogger in draft mode by going to draft.blogger.com.
2. Create Your Post
3. Click on "Post Options" in the bottom left-hand corner of the post editor.
4. On the right-hand side indicate the date and time you want the post published.
5. Click on the orange "Publish Post" button.

That's it. Your post will be published, but not before you want it to.

Additional Reading at Bloggerindraft.blogspot.com.