It seems that Blogger has listened to our feature requests, and have finally implemented the feature which will allow us to schedule our posts!
Currently this feature is only available for use through Blogger in Draft (where we are able to test new widgets and features before their mainstream release). Luckily, all registered Blogger users are able to log in through draft.blogger.com to access their dashboards, so we can all access this great new feature right away!
How to schedule your posts
This is really easy! I've already tried this out myself, and can honestly say that it's no more "fiddly" than writing a regular blog post!
Simply log in to your blog through http://deaft.blogger.com. The dashboard looks a little different but everything should still work in the same way.
Click on the link to create a new post, and type your post as normal. When you have finished, click on the "post options" link beneath your post:
Now change the date and time in the box to the right to those when you would like your blog to be published.
Finally, save your post, and you'll receive a message looking something like this:
When you now view your posts list in your dashboard, you will see your scheduled posts are highlighted with their date and time of publishing.
My thoughts
I'm so pleased to know that Blogger have finally decided to implement this function, especially as posting by scheduled email doesn't allow us to use images in our posts. Now many of us won't have to worry about maintaining our blogs while we're away from the computer: we can simply write them in advance!
Please feel free to leave your comments and opinions about scheduling posts in Blogger below. I'd be interested to know how you will be using this new feature too!
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Just catching a typo early for you:
http://deaft.blogger.com
where you meant
http://draft.blogger.com
:)
I've also been really looking forward to this feature, now whilst it's been working fine in my Blogger Layout blogs, I've not had any luck with FTP ones. :(
Claimed it was scheduled, then once the date had passed, it claimed it was published, only it never did! Anyone else had success on FTP blogs?
Firt of all, sorry for my horrible way of expressing myself in english ;)
I've tried it, and there is a problem: when you publish your posts in that way, Blogger doesn't create an individual page for these posts, no matter if you have this featured or not; so, if you have the comments (or the comment form) under your post, it is impossible for your readers to be able to comment.
You can fix it editing your post and publishing it again even without modifications, but then the new feature isn´t very useful...
Scheduled posts are going to be great for posting every day. I can go away and not have to find a way to make posts, they will just appear as I set them up before I go away. :)
Works for me fine, including individual page and comments button.
Just received your e-mail Amanda, now your post is accessible again, but wasn't last night....
Thanks anyway.
... a question to Blog Buster too, why not ;-)
Hello,
I discuss about this topic with David from eblogtemplate.com in his rubric “What Blogger Template Should I Make Next?” Contest”
http://www.eblogtemplates.com/what-blogger-template-should-i-make-next-contest/
It surprise me that so few had try to convert the WP theme so called “Style Magazine”
Like the slogan say: “Themes Style Magazine a revolutioning WP” why can this theme Style Magazine not revolutioning Blogspot.com too ? That’s my question and who will start this revolution ? Jackbook.com, blogandweb.com eblogtemplates.com or someone else ?
Justin Tadlock made really nice WP Theme Style Magazione but he is not alone. Brian Gardner too with his revolutions themes for WP.
http://justintadlock.com/
http://www.briangardner.com/
look at this marvellous templates hier so called “Revolution Themes”
http://www.revolutiontheme.com/
Are there not so marvellous ? Can this templates not revolutioning Blogspot.com too ?
That’s my question to Jackbook.com
Thanks for all and God bless your work.
SMSreports
For FR Steve:
I'm already top of this one! My new template for this blog (which I will unveil tomorrow) is a much customized, magazine style theme. Rather than being based on the designs of one of the excellent authors you have named, this is of my own personal design. After being inspired by many of the themes you mentioned above, I decided to port such styles to Blogger.
I hope that in the near future, I will also be able to create some generic magazine style templates which users can download for their own Blogger blogs. The problems I encountered when making my own theme are that magazine style themes for Blogger are heavily dependent on the individual settings of the blog user, and require a great deal of compromize and customization to make them work.
But it CAN work, and I hope that my theme will help revolutionize Blogger by pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved with Blogger blogs. Please do call back tomorrow to see what I have created, and let me know your thoughts on this.
Thank you for stopping by to ask me about this. I will be excited to see how the latest styles in magazine themes will affect Blogger powered blogs in the future!
Amanda, you are my new goddess - I deeply bow in your general direction! Thank you *so* much for bringing this to our awareness! *Gawd*, I've been waiting for a solution to this for soooo long.... I didn't want to move to WordPress (been with blogger for near a decade, and still loyal), but the scheduling posts thingy was certainly a major temptation. Thanks again for bringing this solution to light! ^_^
Amanda, thanks for bringing this to our attention. I will be on a month-long vacation to Europe this summer and was already thinking of a way to keep my blog updated. I was dreading the fact that I had to pay a lot of $$ to use the hotel's internet connection. With this feature, I can write some of my posts even before I leave the US. :)
For Falls-Down-Laughing: Thanks for your lovely comment :) I'm very glad Blogger have finally introduced this feature, we've been needing this for a LONG time!
For Babette: I'm sure this feature will come in really handy for you while you're on vacation! Hotels can be really expensive for using internet and phone services.
If you were interested in photoblogging your vacation, you may want to check out Flickr's post to blog service (as Blogger's Mobile blogging doesn't work through all EU countries). This is also free and comes in very handy from time to time :)
Hi, Your site is awesome and I think your tutorials are the best I've seen so far.
I was able to use the scheduled post feature, but I had to choose "Publish Post" rather than "Save Now" to get it marked as scheduled rather than draft.
There is big problem this new feature:
If you want write a post with future date, and first write without dating the post and then correct the date into the future, then the URL address of post remain in the original date. So there is a mismatch between date in the link and date on the page.