We’ve often heard that sometimes you’d like to write a post now and have it automatically published at some time in the future. We listened, and are pleased to say that this feature is ready for you to try out on Blogger in draft.Publishing a post in the future is pretty simple: in the post editor, reveal the Date and Time fields using the “Post Options” toggle and enter a post date and time that is in the future. When you then click the “Publish” button, your post will become “scheduled.” When the date and time of the post arrive, your post will be automatically published to your blog.
Your scheduled posts appear in your Edit Posts list alongside your drafts and published posts. To un-schedule a post, simply save it as a draft any time before it gets published.
Remember: Like all features described on this blog, Scheduled Posts only work when you’ve logged in to http://draft.blogger.com/.
Leave your feedback in the comments!
Additional Notes:
We know that some bloggers currently use future post dates in order to keep one post at the top of their blog for a while. Though we recommend that you use a Text page element for this, you can still get this old behavior with just one additional step. First, publish your post with the current date and time. This will publish it to your blog. Then, once it’s published, edit the post to change the date to the future and publish it again. We don’t re-schedule posts that are already published, so the post will stay on your blog but sort to the very top.
As with published posts, the post editor does not autosave scheduled posts if you go back and edit them. You wouldn’t want the post to publish while you’re in the middle of editing it! You can save the scheduled post as a draft to remove the scheduling and this will turn autosave back on.
In some testing we’ve found that schedule posting is not working for some FTP blogs. If you run across this, please let us know in the comments so we can try to track it down.
As with published posts, the post editor does not autosave scheduled posts if you go back and edit them. You wouldn’t want the post to publish while you’re in the middle of editing it! You can save the scheduled post as a draft to remove the scheduling and this will turn autosave back on.
In some testing we’ve found that schedule posting is not working for some FTP blogs. If you run across this, please let us know in the comments so we can try to track it down.
175 comments:
That is a great feature !
We were waiting for this feature for so many time...!
Thank you !
Great feature!
Now I won't have to wake up panicked that I overslept my usual posting time (I'm anal (my wife says crazy), I can't help it)
it works!!!!!
Now I can blitz a whole lot of posts, but schedule them to appear in a more regular frequency - this is useful as it addresses bloggers' readers' needs too.
Cheers,
Mungo
I have only one thing to say to the Blogger Team: YOU ROCK!!!!
Okay, I lied. I have more than one thing to say. First, thank you very much for launching this feature.
It will allow me to get some much needed sleep, as I was blogging at night in order to catch up on what I missed during the day.
With this feature, along with video uploading, spicing up the blog rolls, custom domain (with free hosting), becoming an OpenID provider and adding Google gadgets, I now have no reason to even consider switching away to any other platform.
Thanks again Blogger.
LONG LIVE BLOGGER!!!!
PS
After I file my taxes, I am definitely going to pick up some Blogger gear at the Google store.
One word: w00t!
Now that I've gotten that off my chest, I'd just like to say that, actually, mungo and darnellclayton.com said what I was going to say. So here's my simple "Me, too!" post instead of a full-fledged comment. And here I thought my feelings were unique... ;-)
Great. I think this is a feature we were waiting for since the beginning of our Blogger adventures!
Scheduled Posting problem in Blogger in Draft
* I have scheduled a post.
* It was published at the scheduled time
But:
* I cannot get the full post url at the "Read Full Post!" link, (it just gives my usual blogger homepage url like:
http://my-blog.blogspot.com
rather than the full post URL like:
http://my-blog.blogspot.com/my-new-post.html
Therefore no one can get to see the full post at all -even the archive link for the new post shows my blogs home page rather than the actual post)
* I have "Read Full Post !" feature on in my blog -
* In order to get the post appear fully I had to go and republish the same post
A bug is waiting for your attention to be fixed at your earliest attention please.
Thank you
All the best, keep up the good work and new innovative features like that)
THANK YOU!
confirmed bug that @newrush mentioned.
I noticed a problem with the way this new feature handle the dates.
When entering the date, the year should be in four-digit YYYY format, instead of the two digit YY format it's using now. This is the problem we have been through in the year of Y2K. Say, if I enter "99" for the year it's set to 1999 instead of 2099. Sure, it doesn't make a lot of sense to schedule a post so far in the future, but I have seen people do odder things. This also applies to the "Edit Posts" section.
By the way, a JS-powered date chooser/selector/picker would be nice.
I agree with Haochi. Date-picker and four-digit year would be nice. Actually, how about switching Blogger's date field (optionally!) to ISO 8601? Personally I find it easier to deal with dates like 2008-02-16 than 02/16/08 or 02/16/2008. It could be just me, though.
Actually, how about having the localization settings in the post editor configurable like the dates and times displayed on the blog? I have my blog set to a 24-hour clock, but I still get AM and PM in the editor. Very frustrating...
Many bloggers will be pleased. I see this being asked a lot on Blogger help group.
Swtrose(Rose)
htttp://www.bloggertalk.net
I'm agree with darnellclayton.com
I think, using custom domain with Blogger hosting is the most important property of Blogger. Thanks Blogger team and their father Google :-)
Dittoes- great idea & nice work.
But I don't want a date-picker. Those stupid things always pop-up when you barely mouse-over them and my system freezes for a few seconds. My realtor will send you a calendar if you can't figure out what day it is.
Newrush, To view the full URL, go back to the Manage/Edit Post view. Select "view" on the newly published view. The full URL will display on the scheduled and published post.
This bug needs to get fixed but at least there is a work around for the time being.
RJM
Well, that gets a "finally" from me. It's the single most wished for feature from me, and the absence was pushing me towards WordPress, which I implemented a few weeks ago on my own domain.
Now, I don't feel the pressing need to move to the WordPress platform, so this was, as they say, in the nick of time. At least for me.
Cheers and thanks.
/Magnus
@Magnus: I've been under pressure from a friend-of-a-friend to switch to WordPress. He hates Blogger with all his guts. I write for one of his sites on occasion, and it uses WordPress. I like it, but not enough to deal with getting my own hosting or changing domains. WordPress.com has a lot of restrictions on what you can edit with a free account anyway...
I am also getting same problem as newrush mentioned.When my schedule post published it was showing my home page URL .Only when i refresh "edit posts" of the blog or blogger dash board after the shedule post has been published i am getting proper URL.Hope you fix the bug soon and thanks a lot for adding this feature which i was waiting for since long
@Voyagerfan5761
Yeah, the hassle of setting up a WP server, or the restrictions on the free accounts, is what kept me on Blogger.
Now that Blogger is catching up in some important areas, I'm all the more pleased! :-)
/M
Same problem as newrush mention. Hope it gets fixed soon.
Psst! Before you guys delete this off-topic post of mine, can you also nuke the three comments from cool-rr.com above? They're just junk, probably intended to garner traffic or PageRank++. In other words, they've tripped my internal spam alarm. :)
Great! This is what I've always wanted. I was too thinking of moving over to WordPress, but now I am satisfied!. (Although I would prefer PHP coding or at least some better template system... ;))
Cheers,
David
Hey folks,
Blogger uses FTP to publish new postings to my website's blog section www.henkjanvanderklis.nl/weblog. The new Scheduled post option works fine for the individual blog post, but leaves the index.html untouched. So, after publishing a new post no index is being updated.
Could you fix that thing?
You rocks ! A dream comes true !
For those who want different date/time formats for entering post dates, though this won't solve all of your problems, you can already enter either 2008, 08, or even 1988 for that field and it will be accepted (though I only tried this for a couple of locales).
NewsRush: What's your blog URL, so we can take a look?
Bug: scheduled posts' permalink is the blog url and not the post url!
it works!!! chipiron was here
This will only be relevant until the feature is released into full Blogger, and I haven't tested these, but:
If you schedule a post, then look at the Manage/Edit Posts view in regular Blogger, does anything weird happen?
If you schedule a post, then go into regular Blogger and go to edit the post (not necessarily actually edit it), does anything weird happen?
Having the same problem as Henk-Jan van der Klis. I have an FTP blog and the scheduling feature will only update the index after you log back into blogger after the scheduled time and refresh the posts. I’ve had success with a firefox add on that refreshes the blogger publishing page every hour and then the scheduled posts will update and your index will republish. I'm so happy to see this feature available, I hope that this glitch can be fixed for FTP publishers. Thanks again blogger team.
I'm also having the "Bug: scheduled posts' permalink is the blog url and not the post url" issue.
If you Edit the same post after it is auto-published, and simply hit the Publish button, all is well.
But that sort of negates the whole point behind the scheduled part :-).
It is a fantastic idea though!
LetterMeLater.com with mail-to blogger is still a great option to create scheduled posts!
Hurrah!! Thanks Blogger team :)
This is going to be extremely handy for me and thank you, thank you, thank you :)
I noticed that newsrush spotted a problem with URLs to schedule posts. I don't know if anybody spotted it but I had a similar problem when I tried to click on the URL in my archives for a post that had used 'schedule post'. The post was published but there was no archive URL.
I fixed it by manually republishing the post, but I hope the problem gets fixed, no one wants to use a schdule feature if they have to go back after the post is published.
I have been jealous of a friend of mine who is using wordpress and had this option. This will definitely make it easier to stay on schedule with my posts now.
That´s necesary! Thanks for stay helping our lives
This is great! It makes my life as the admin of http://www.askTheAdmin.com a little easier when I can publish posts for the next few days. BUT...
When it does publish the posts do not have their own page. I need to draft and re publish them.
I'll add my voice to the chorus of people complaining that scheduled posts don't link to their own page in the permalink. I wasn't experiencing the problem, but I just got it today. Now I know why this hasn't been pushed to mainstream Blogger yet...
I would like to point out that I am publishing on Blog*Spot, not FTP or custom domain.
Have to confirm the same issue as the rest of the crowd... "Bug: scheduled posts' permalink is the blog url and not the post url". I was waiting long time for schedule feature and this simple way works just fine, once this bug is solved :)
Thanks for the reports about the permalink bug! We'll be fixing that in the pretty near term. (And certainly before this feature leaves draft.)
OOOOH!!! This is wonderful! I'm going to use it vey soon!
Thanks for your work!!
PS: i see you work very hard on comments, i've some suggestion:
- comment "in post", just like wordpress style
- support for emoticons (i'm using custom HTML/javascript to get it)
- highlight blog author comments (i'm using a custom CSS/HTML/javascript to get it)
- gravatar support
- display avatar in the comments under the post.
The permalink bug has been fixed.
Let us know if you see any other problems!
Thanks Pete!
I thought it was just me! (good to hear that it wasn't!)
I have not noticed any other errors, but I am glad that you were able to resolve these issues.
~Darnell
I posted about this last night, and this morning was informed by many anxious readers that they couldn't post comments (being unable to get to the permalink page).
I hadn't noticed this problem myself, though I'm very glad to know this has been fixed.
This feature will undoubtedly be one of the most popular features you've rolled out! Thanks for listening to our suggestions :)
Pete: well, it didn't worked for me. My today's post still had wrong permalink. Maybe it's because it has been scheduled for some time. Will try schedule some post today for tomorow. I'm leaving for holiday on friday and I'm very anxious to get this schedule thing to work :)
I run a FTP based blog, minimarketing.it with blogger username pondga@gmail.com and the feature didn't work: scheduled post has been published just when I relogged on blogger
I just learned about this and tested it today. I can confirm that the scheduled post when delivered still has the main website as the URL and I had to return to the dashboard to refresh before the post URL existed. Is this what was supposedly "fixed"? Hopefully things won't stay like this. This feature is the one reason I have *highly* considered migrating to wordpress.
@belcarnen: I just scheduled a post last night and it published this morning with a bad permalink.
Blogger Team: The issue is not fixed.
this feature is superb, i was waiting for this for a long time. Great work guys, and a big thank you!
@Voyagerfan5761 Did the same thing, you are right, it's still not working :-/
Apologies. The permalink problem is not solved.
I'll update when we fix it for real.
Holy moley! Good thing I dropped by bloggerindraft... this is great news! Now let me try this right away...
this is a great feature. thanks!
@Pete: it seems to be working just fine by today! Thanks!!!
It is working well. I have just used Scheduled Posts and the permalink it is ok
I set up a BlogList in a test blog, it's working, what is the correct way to move the widget, links and all, to another blog, because it is not working for me.
As Belcarnen noticed, the permalink problem should be sorted out now.
Jason assures me that the correct code has been pushed to all servers and all is well.
We do have reports of scheduled FTP publishing now not working, which we're looking into. We wanted to get the permalink thing sorted out first, though.
For your information:
I have now tried this twice. On both occations my scheduled posts only end up as DRAFT not as a published post.
Related misfeature. I would much prefer that the default publish date is set when you first *publish*, not when first saving (or even autosaving) the post. It's the no 1 annoyance bug in blogger.
BTW. First attempt to comment gave:
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@redlib: Agreeing, +1 that change.
On another note, the permalink issues do indeed seem to be fixed this time. Sweet!
Thank you Team Blogger. I know you hear it when things go afoul so I thought I would send praise for hitting one out of the park.
Creativity isn't regular. But Blog readers habits are. This is a fantastic solution for providing consistent content for fans.
As a writer, comedian and radio/web broadcaster who's Circadian Rhythms are more erratic than a drum circle for newbies I thank you!
I am having a similar issue as others when trying to publish to a blog via FTP. The scheduled post does not publish until I manually log in and do it.
Re fixing the FTP scheduling problems, perhaps a republish-job system would be beneficial. When a scheduled post is scheduled, it is associated with a job in the Blogger database that tells the system to republish that site to include the new post. Does that idea have any merit? Is it something that's already been considered?
I echo laila...I have tried to schedule posts two evenings in a row. They say they are scheduled and in the morning are just back to being drafts. Unfortunately, something is still not working quite right.
been very excited about this feature but when finally tried it, somehow it doesn't work for my blog. my posts are forever scheduled and are never published.
Attempted to schedule a post for 5 am 3/21/2008 it had not published as of 6:30 am. I went into settings and published the index and it showed up.
RogueSpot.com
~Matt Aires
很棒的功能！！！
FTP publishing error here too. Same error as above - Blogger Dash says it has posted, but the article won't appear on site until I manually republish the item.
The last two days when I've tried to schedule a post, it has not worked. The entry is saved as draft post, not a scheduled post. Is something broken?
@wdin: It's more likely that you're using the "Save Now" button instead of "Publish Post", or using www.blogger.com instead of draft.blogger.com. It's working fine for me...
This is the best option i always wanted.
Testing my openID
Still wondering about the "scheduled" post turning into a draft again instead of publishing at the scheduled time. Any chance that is getting fixed?
Hi Jason,
I've notice that for publishing in my FTP blog (www.portaldiabetes.net) the schedule posting is not working.
I've been waiting for this feature since I started blogging! Thank you for adding it!
testing
Another bug: I used to receive the post by e mail as soon as they were published. It did not function with the scheduled posts. Maybe this behaviour is related with other bugs reported here.
Hope this has not been reported before but reading dozens of comments is not funny.
Like Magnus this was one reason I was thinking of moving to Wordpress. But with this you have finally managed to get one of the few features I have been waiting for. Thanks. I will be checking it out with my next post! And report any bugs or irregularities i find!
Thanks for this!
Pheww...Finally...Bravo Blogger
Thank you
You are the BEST
Followed the link from Blogger Buzz. A zillion thanks for this feature. Please work on the bugs quickly. As you can see there are a lot of us who love this feature and were on the verge of moving to WordPress to have it. Thank you for all your work and ideas. The Blogger staff is GREAT! I can't wait to try this out.
THANK YOU!!!!!
The Schedule is absolutely great function. Thank you very much for it:)
I think this is a great idea. I would suggest one change to the implementation, however.
Please distinguish between "in draft" and "scheduled for future publication". A draft version of a post is not ready for publication. This will also remove any question about what to do with a post that is scheduled for future publication just AFTER its "Post Date and Time". It also assures that the "boilerplate" post (full of stuff I like to copy into my real posts) that I keep at the top of my post list will never get accidentally published.
Imagine the accidental future publications that could start happening:
* I start work on a post, scheduling it for posting tomorrow morning. I save it in draft and rush out to an appointment, intending to work on it more later.
* I come down with the flu and go to bed.
* My unfinished post is published bright and early the next morning, while I am delirious with fever.
Please give the us 3 choices
* "Publish Post Now"
* "Save Draft"
* "Schedule Post"
You could do this either by adding a button, or by adding a check box in the "posting options" -- "publish only at or after post date and time"
Thanks for thinking of us
Oh. Never mind. I read this posting all wrong.
Can we have a feature to remove our own comments?
this is a Godsend. Now i can take some days off from writing. I plan to try advanced posting next week. Thank you, Blogger.
randy place
www.yourcareerservice.com
Thanks so much for this feature, it's definatly one of best features added. And best of all it's easy to use!
I have been waiting for this!
In my opinion being able to time-post was the only advantage Typepad had over Blogger and I figured it was only a matter of time before Blogger found a way to fix the gap.
Fabulous! Keep up the great work!
That's great! I can't wait till this is added to the "regular" Blogger, too.
now i don't have a reason to miss posting. thanks for this!
I was logged into blogger in draft and did it just like you said it never worked. I checked it this morning and it had not posted and I checked 5 hours after the time I wanted it to post. I don't get it --it also deleted one of the articles I had completed when I went to save it -- boy was I bummed about that too. Not sure this is such a great thing as yall say it is.
I tried this & whilst I did catch sight of the schedule date & time fields, they soon vanished from the screen.
I thought they might reappear when I clicked on the publish button, but all it did was publish the post straightaway as normal.
It's a feature that I am very much interested in, so I do hope that you can getting working ok.
"Family Nutritionist" said:
(quote)
>Please give the us 3 choices
>* "Publish Post Now"
>* "Save Draft"
>* "Schedule Post"
(end quote)
I agree wholeheartedly. I am one of those few who use the date field to force the posts into appearing in a specific order. This would be much easier than having to post first and then go back and edit the date.
Whenever I logon to my blog, am always anxious to see the goodies that blogger team have come up with. Google is doing alot for us bloggers. Am so greatful to google and blogger team for all the wonderful features they keep adding to blogger to make bloggers lives eaiser.
I find blogger easy to use and manage than other complicated blogging platform. Am so grateful to blogger team for all they are doing.
Thank you so much blogger team. Thank you Google.
Scheduled Posts feature does not work for me. I use Windows Vista. My URL is http://bloggerhythms.blogspot.com. When I hit PUBLISH the post goes live even when it has a future date. What info do you need to help you fix this in my blog?
thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Charlie: The first and most important step is to make absolutely sure you're on draft.blogger.com (instead of www.blogger.com) when you hit the Publish button. I thought there was a bug a month or two back and started writing a long post about it, when I realized I'd been editing on www.blogger.com.
The feature is pretty good for the publishers who can't give time daily to their posts,so WE R ROCKIN' with this fabulous feature!
Thank you for listening!! I have been waiting for this for ages. This is the one feature which will keep users on Blogger. Keep up the good work.
This was the only feature that I liked about using Wordpress with another blog.
Now, that you have this feature the Wordpress blog will probably just get converted into a website.
Thanks.
I was in draft.com blogger and even did three post for three consecutive days and set the days and times in post options -- note here none of them showed up in the scheduled post area either-- then I thought okay I'll just check each morning anyways and see if they post anyways-and now two posts for the last two days have still not posted on their own I have to change the time and hand post it because the time is always past by the time I do it--what is wrong here? I did all of them in draft.blogger.com. I don't think this feature is as great as everyone says it is. I'm greatly dissappointed. And here I'm coming to have to have surgery and this would have been great to have a bunch of post ready to go and not miss a day while I was in the hospital --now there just won't be any posts for who knows how long - maybe I should go to that other account wordpress instead everyone says it works and is better.
It's definitely working. I've scheduled a post over and over, but it doesn't post. And I am doing it in the "blogger in draft." It says scheduled, but nothing happens. Hope they get it fixed soon. This would be a great addition.
You have no idea how happy this makes me! Seriously. That was my one big regret of going with Blogger instead of another blogging platform with that feature. (I realized after setting up my blog that it wasn't available here.) But now...no regrets!! :D