If you WordPress of course you want to fill your homepage or blog with content in the form of text articles, photos and other content. With WordPress you can create both your website create as well as write text posts. This article informs you about the different possibilities WordPress offers you to publish your posts.
Publish WordPress articles - different possibilities
WordPress offers you several options for publishing your posts. For example, you can publish via the dashboard. You can still publish your post via the menu integrated in WordPress specifically for this purpose. Another option is to publish posts via desktop or smartphone app. You can still use the app to manage your WordPress. Another straightforward option is to publish posts from quick draft mode. WordPress comes with a special post publishing feature by default. This feature is available for Andoid, iOS, Linux, MAC OS X and for Microsoft Windows operating systems. In addition, in order to use this feature, you need a free account on the WordPress.com website.
Planning the publication of articles in WordPress
If you read blogs yourself, you may have noticed that some blogs always publish new posts on a certain day of the week. The day of the week, for example, can be crucial in determining how many users read your post. A little planning can therefore never hurt when blogging. You should therefore plan the publication of new posts in advance. You can create your plan for the period of a month or longer. Of course, you can still change the post topics afterwards. By publishing posts regularly, you will increase your visibility on the Worl Wide Web and your blog's traffic. Of course, you may not have time to write and publish a post on the chosen day of the week. Therefore, you should switch your posts in advance and let them publish on autopilot on the desired date.
Possibilities of time-controlled publishing in WordPress
You might be wondering why you should use WordPress' built-in scheduling. When you automate the publication of your posts, you can blog in a more organized way, be much more flexible and independent of time. Furthermore, it may happen that you want to publish the post you just finished at a later time. In this case, do not click on the "Publish immediately" button on the right-hand side in the article and page editor, but on "Set date and time". Then enter the date and time in the mask and click on the "Schedule" button. If you encounter unexpected problems with scheduling, you can remedy the situation with the WordPress PlugIn "WP Missed Schedule Fix Failed Future Posts". By the way, you can schedule not only the publication, but also the removal of older posts. With the post "Expirator" you can determine on which date a post should be deleted or moved to another category.
If you want to make the post you have just written available to interested, unregistered readers as reading material at a later time, use the plug-in "Content Protect By Time Lock". By using this plug-in, you motivate the readers of your blog to register.
Publish individual page and article content with WordPress
Of course, with WordPress you can not only publish complete posts and pages via time control. If you want to publish individual content (texts, photos) time-controlled, you should install the plug-in "wpSleep". This offers you the possibility to enter short codes and the desired start and end date. This possibility to publish is just perfect to publish raffles or current special offers with WordPress. By the way, with WordPress you can not only publish posts and selected content automatically, but also display widgets time-controlled. For this purpose, the plug-in "Widget Visibility Time Scheduler" is suitable. This plug-in with a German-language user interface extends the widgets you have selected with additional fields in which you can enter the start and end date and select a specific day of the week.
If the automatic publication does not work
Normally, WordPress automatic post publishing works flawlessly. Nevertheless, it can happen that errors occur. One reason for an error can be that your WordPress is set to the wrong time zone. Click on "Settings" and select the "General" tab. UTC+1 (Coordinated Universal Time) should be displayed as the time zone. Daylight saving time, which is displayed under the Berlin time zone, for example, is not taken into account for the UTC+1 time zone. Errors can still occur due to an incorrect time zone setting of the Database or the web server. A plug-in conflict can also be the reason for errors in the scheduled publishing of WordPress articles.
WordPress only searches for scheduled posts if there is traffic on your blog. For this reason you should not schedule the automatic publication of your posts at a time when no users are likely to visit your blog. If you have low traffic on your blog or site, you can use the "WP Missed Schedule" plug-in.
