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Going Away but Still Want to Post to Your blog?

Posting regularly is necessary to keep your readers and the search engines interested in your blog. This becomes a bit of a challenge if you decide to go on holiday. The answer is to use one of the great features of WordPress, which is the option to save your posts and publish them at a date and time you specify.

In the “Post Timestamp” drop down box on the right hand side of the “Write” page, you will see a check box that says “Edit Timestamp” with a drop down box for the month above text boxes for the date and time. You can change these to the date and time you want your post to be published. You must check the “Edit Timestamp” check box in order for the change to take place. Forget the check box and when you click “Publish”, your post will be published instantly.

There is another aspect of blogging which makes this WordPress feature useful, and that is you will find inspiration for writing posts comes in fits and starts… One day you will get the urge to write a number of posts, while on other days you will draw a complete blank when you site down to write. When you do get the urge to write, create a number of posts and schedule them to be published over the next few days or weeks.

If you have opted to use the “Update Services” feature of WordPress and have entered a list of ping services into the WordPress “Options / Writing” page, the post will be pinged as soon as you save it. If you are saving a lot of posts they will all be pinged as soon as you save them and might be construed as spamming by the update services. The answer is to use a service or plugin which only pings the update services when your posts are actually published. Here are two such options:

1.    The No Ping Wait plugin has been used for some time by bloggers, but with recent versions of WordPress some bloggers have reporting that saved posts are no longer being pinged when they are published. The PingFix plugin by Jan Piotrowski addresses this issue and only pings update services when your posts are published.

2.    The other option available to you is to use the Autopinger service which checks your blog every thirty minutes or so and will only ping the blog services when a new post is published on your blog. If you decide to use this service, make sure you delete all the URL’s in the update services option in your WordPress admin panel.

To your Success,

Alejandro Reyes
skype:  whoisalejandro
yahoo:  whoisalejandro

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