You all know that I *heart* blogging, and think every photographer who moderately enjoys both writing and shooting should have a blog. (Heck, writing is optional — some of the best photo blogs don’t need many words.)
You also know that I blog on Tuesdays and Thursdays – but what if inspiration strikes on Monday? Or Friday? Do I just table the idea until one of the blogging days?
Nope. I use the best-kept secret in WordPress. In your WordPress dashboard, where you normally go to hit ‘Publish,’ click on the ‘Edit’ link beside ‘Publish immediately.’ Fill in the date and time you’d like WordPress to take care of your publishing, and voila!
See that? I wrote this post yesterday. (I am a ninja! Heeiiiii-yah!)
Spreading your client sneak peeks out over two days brings you twice the traffic, but you can blog ‘em in one sitting. Heck, you can blog a month at a time, if you’d like! No more excuses for neglected blogs!
I do this ALL. THE. TIME! It’s great and,just like you said, it ensures that your ideas don’t go forgotten!
There was a bit of a bug for the WordPress 2.9 release, so some of my scheduled posts would say “Missed Schedule”, and not publish. I changed the publishing times to something really random and now they’re hitting! (Just a word of warning).
I have around 20 drafts of single images sitting in my queue too, so that if I’m totally lost on what to say, I just schedule one of those!
hehe. Leeann I thought of you when I saw this. Love this feature…sad to say I haven’t taken full advantage of this yet, but it’s a goal for this wedding season!
thanks,
d
@Leeann Marie – that is exactly my process! I even wrote an action that does the watermarking for me, and on the mac I use a program called Ecto to handle my posts. I wasn’t too pleased with the way wordpress handles multiple image posting.
Great tip! I totally didn’t know about that one!
Seriously – I just discovered this last month and I tell everyone about it. Best kept wordpress secret indeed!