Setting posts to auto-publish at a specified date in the future is a simple WordPress trick to help you “work ahead” with your blog, which is great for those times when you’re in the blogging mood. Here are the steps:
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First you’ll need a post you want to future-publish. Login to your WordPress admin. Go to the “Write” section to write a new post, or open one of your drafts.
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In the “Post Timestamp” box (click the plus sign next to “Post Timestamp” if you can’t see it), check the checkbox that says “Edit Timestamp.”
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Enter in the date and time on which you want the post to future-publish. The fields are: month, day, year, hour, and minute. Note that the timestamp is in 24-hour time, so “3:12 PM” would be “15:12″.
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Click “Publish,” and you’re done!
Now your post should show up under “Scheduled Entries” under Dashboard.
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John, infact you have to press “publish”, otherwise the post will not be scheduled for publishing. I wrote an article for the same as well at http://tech.shantanugoel.com/2008/02/26/tip-wordpress-posts-scheduling-back-to-the-future-or-blast-from-the-past.html
Right, I found out recently that you can just click “Publish” instead of selecting “Published” from “Post Status” and then “Save.”
I must’ve been thinking about a ye olde WordPress version (yeah, my WP usage dates back to the 1.5 era), because if I remember correctly, it used to be that clicking “Publish” meant “Publish Now.”
I’ve updated the post — thanks.
@John: I was on blogger/blogspot at that time but yeah I think I remember from some conversations with friends that at that time, one had to press save instead of publish.
btw, is ur notification for comments via email working? because I didn’t get any mail for your reply..
Strange, it should be working, as far as I know. Hopefully it was a one-time issue with the message being caught in a spam filter along the way.
Thanks for letting me know.
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How do you autopublish posts by email without approving them?
I need to get all my spam autoposting on my site http://www.sendspamemail.com
Anyone who can answer this ‘truely’ deserves to have a site called wordpress expert!
Thanks!
Tim.
@Tim: This should be of help: Publish Your E-Mail Posts.