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.
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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
One word:
awesome.
This is a great feature, but I do not have the schedule toggle on my blog. Can you help?
Great feature and one I've wanted for ages. I used it for the first time today and my test piece was sitting there scheduled for tomorrow (07/04, 7.30 am) until I hit the Refresh key when in my blog. Now it's on view (to me at least) a day early, though the post itself is dated and timed to that I'd scheduled it for. I signed out and back into my blog too, only to find it still there...
I had the same problem as VP
LOVE the scheduled post feature. Thanks a bunch!
excellent feature. works well.
I am having a similar problem to http://bloggerhythms.blogspot.com.
I have created a new blog to test Scheduled Pots and have so far scheduled three posts using a number of the functionalities available - so far - Test one which was a straight forward simple text without attaching pictures or altering scripts or fonts worked perfectly, Test two has no text or picture added only a title has not appeared and is still showing as a draft, Test Three was schedule today for publishing on Thursday 10th April, on this post I altered text and font sizing and added a picture, the post was published immediately to the blog with the post date of 10th April (It is the 7th today)
Thanks for this great feature which I had been waiting for for a long time.
I use blogger with google groups, i.e. every new post is being automatically sent to a google group.
Though a scheduled post published as planned, the automatic email was not triggered. Can you please work on this?!
Thanks a lot.
Thank you for this feature. It is very helpful and long overdue. I tried it, and it works - the posts were published as scheduled. The only issue that I had was the same as Philip Madelung noted in his post - when you use it with Google Groups email subscription, when the post is published, the email announcing it is not being sent to Google Groups subscribers. I rely on that feature to let all my readers know of the updates on my blog, and it would have been very helpful to have. Otherwise, the scheduled posts feature is not as useful. Are you planning to add it any time soon?
Thanks.
Just reporting in: I tried this on one of my FTP-published blogs The Hall of the Presidents, but the post did not publish as scheduled. draft.blogger.com did list the post as published, but it never actually was.
I then logged into regular blogger, which also listed the post as published, and republished the post. That did it.
The Sceduled Post option is fantastic! Thanks! The only glitch I've run into is that it does not auto send an email to me of my postings. Any suggestions?
JAmes Ryle
Oh goody goody goody. This is just what I've been waiting for. I shall try it out right now. Fingers crossed.
I love this feature! Thank you so much for creating it. I was just thinking the other day that it would be wonderful if I could write a post in advance when I had some time, but that it would appear the next day. To my complete joy and excitement, I found your blogger in draft features.
Thank you so much! Blogger is the best.
Woohoooo! Worry-free holidays!!! Thank you Thank you!!! -Marichelle
I love the scheduling of posts. It's something we've been needing for a while. THANKS!
I do have a few feature enhancement requests:
1) When a post goes live, it doesn't get emailed. We have our site configured to email posts to an address. Posts submitted the old way still trigger emails, but new scheduled posts do not. We want that feature enabled.
2) On the screen that shows future scheduled posts, we'd love to see the time and date of the pending posts. We don't want to set something to go live at the same time as something else already scheduled, and having to go into each post to determine its time is a real hassle.
3) Finally, if there would be a way to change the date and time of all scheduled posts from the "scheduled posts" listing, that would be AMAZING.
Keep up the good work, guys.
Sweeeet. I've used it twice now without a hitch. I've usually written my posts the night before and had to remember to post them or do it at work (sketchy!) so this is exactly what I needed!
Just tried this on Monday (around 12:02 am) for our StupidRanger.com blog and the FTP Publish did not work properly.
I went back in to check on it and it was marked as published but had not shown up in my blog. I manually published and it resolved the issue.
I'd love for this feature to work, I hope you can track it down for us!
Like my Comment about the refreshing my blog, editing a post after it's gone onto the to be scheduled list also puts it 'live' prior to the scheduled time and date. Again, it shows the requested time and date in the blog.
This is by far my most favorite feature that has been added! Thanks bunches!
The lack of this feature was the one and ONLY reason I ever considered switching to another platform. Blogger seemed to be so far behind in this area when most other platforms offered it. I'm happy to see that you've finally gotten around to making it happen and can't wait for it to be out of "draft." Thank you. :)
This is a wonderful idea!!! I'll use it a lot :D. Thanks!!!
Scheduled posts don't seem to be working properly at the moment. I've had posts scheduled for publishing on 8AM ET Mon. and Wed. this week, and these posts were not automatically published at the designated time/date.
I tried twice this week for the scheduled post and it doesn't seem to be working. It says 'scheduled' on my posts page but when it comes time it doesn't post.
I also tried to auto publish (FTP, my own domain) today and it did not work. I'm excited about the feature though and am crossing my fingers that it will work soon! (Blog is tshirtcasserole.poweredbytshirts.com - hosted at dreamhost, if that helps.)
Finally! Thank you!
I might be one of those for whom this scheduling feature has not worked. I woner if you could look into this for me. I am glad Blogger finally offers this. It will make my life a lot easier!
I've been waiting for this feature for a long time, so yay! It seems to work great for my blogspot-hosted blog, but it didn't work at all for FTP-posting. Like Matt Kirkland, I checked after the date & time I set for posting and found that my scheduled post was now listed as published, even though it hadn't been. Opening the post in the editor and reposting by FTP worked just fine. I hope that bug is fixed soon!
Brilliant news!
However it doesn't work for me.
Same as a couple of others said, I put a future time and date and it publishes straight away :-(
What an excellent idea.
As usual, thanks to the Blogger Team
for all the work.
Awesome, now I don't have login to publish draft posts that I have been holding for release on a given date.
Thanks
It works! It works!
My blog will be packed with scheduled posts from now on.
Thanks so much
Racheal x
Unfortunately I have to add my voice to the "doesn't work for FTP posting" crowd. Scheduled posts show up as posted on the Dashboard when the relevant time rolls around, but they don't actually get pushed out to the server; republishing the blog manually does the trick, but that makes the whole thing a bit less useful.
Three cheers!!! It works and it's something I've been waiting for :)
Thank you!
I'm going to Vietnam next week and will not have time to blog. But now, I can do all the blogging before I leave. Good job, blogger!
Blogger Buzz: Blog List, Scheduled Post Publishing on Blogger in draft
Scheduled Post Publishing is something I have looked forward to from day 1 on Blogger. I’ve just tried out a test posting on my main blog (Altneuland) and it works as advertised.
Just one problem, though: It’s not sending out the e-mail version of the blog posting to the “BlogSend Address” (A comma separated list of up to 10 email addresses to have your blog mailed to whenever you publish) on file when the scheduled date/time comes around and the item is published.
(I see this has already been reported by other publishers, but I just wanted to add my voice to the chorus. Without having the e-mail generated when the scheduled date/time is reached and the post is published, the new feature is more like a trade-off than a definite plus.)
I think this is a great feature! It comes in particularly useful when say, if we want to give someone special a 'Happy Birthday' message on our blogs, we can schedule that post to appear exactly at midnight on that person's birthday. It helps if we do not have internet access at that given time, but still want to wish that special someone. It will definitely be quite meaningful too.
This what I'm looking for in here just like other blog host providers...THANKS FOR BRINGING IT UP HERE....
It's great to see this! Unfortunately, I seem to be one of the folks it doesn't yet work for. (I publish to an external FTP server.) Looks like there are a lot of great new features coming our way; thanks!
can you PLEEEEASE put in an auto save feature on blogger- like you have in gmail? i've lost several posts i was working on due to my computer refreshing or falling asleep while waiting for a video to get processed so i could add it to the post... :(
I'm glat it is opt-in at the moment, and woudl request that it remain so - so you can choose whether you want it to be scheduled or publish immediately with a future date.
For the R&D Society Noticeboard blog we set the publication date to be the expiry date of the activity we list - so the blog items are listed in most current/furthest in advance on top. I wouldn't want this being turned on for everyone and all our future activities hiding until they were past.
I have feedburner set to email updates to subscribers. The post gets published exactly like it should, but no email is sent out.
Hey brynn, Blogger does have an auto-save feature for posts as long as you have Javascript enabled in your browser. If you get disconnected from Blogger for some reason, you should be able to find your auto-saved post under "Posting" table "Edit Posts" sub-tab (you may need to click "Drafts").
I'm having the same problem as En Medio del Ruido - I don't get e-mailed when someone posts a comment to "scheduled" blog posts.
Hi- This feature is great! One thing I'd like is to have the time zone show up... I'm on the east coast and of course i can do the math to switch it from PST to EST but it would be great to have it right there.
Also thanks for a great site! I had my first blog up in one hour yesterday and found this incredibly easy to use.
Awesome feature! Thank you Thank you!! I am away from the computer on the weekends and this will diffidently help me out! OMMMMMM BLOGGER IN DRAFT IS GOOOD! OMMMMMM!!!
Scheduled posts did not publish at the designated time on my FTP blog, either.
If it worked, this would be a feature I would highly value.
John Lamb
www.HispanicNashville.com
it has worked in the past but it is not working now!
Why?
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FTP i think to www.glennview.org
Cool, great job!
I want to ask, can we preview our future postings, just to make sure what it looks like of our posting in our blog before we post it according to the schedules we've set them up?
Please show me how to do it if you already have this feature/tool included, thanks a lot!
I found one reason that a scheduled post might post immediately. Not that anyone would do this (except for me). Make sure you are signed in to Blogger in Draft and not Blogger when you publish.
@felinesopher: I had no idea there were other people who wanted that! Emphatic +1, Blogger Team! :-)
@Brett Royal: I did that once. :-) It's annoying. Thought I'd found a bug until I realized which subdomain I'd gone to by mistake.
Now if only I could schedule my comments to appear at a certain time (originally written on Feb 16, 2008) ;)
doesn't work for me at all. when I hit publish post, it just publishes it right there and then. what am I doing wrong? thank you.
hello! today i had some problems with scheduled posts. I did what i do everyday but the posts didn't appear in the right time, i think they would never appear so i published them the old way. Is there a problem today?
I had scheduled posts for gelame.gr, madstuff.gr and sexyday.gr for times 10H00 am to 11H30am GMT+2 time but never appeared.
Yep, this seems to have stopped working today :( my scheduled posts are not being posted :(
I was definitely in Blogger in Draft, everything looked pretty cool but the scheduled post (my first attempt) never published. Please, please fix it! Thanks.
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What about a "blogger offline" feature like the new Google docs with Google Gear? Schedule posts is great, but what I really need to be able to do is work offline for my blogger posts and then also to be able to have then automatically sync if I update my post and then go online. THAT would be a killer feature. Any possibility of that happening?
Thank you, thank you. I have been itching for a "Scheduled Posts" feature. It is extremely convenient for me as I tend to write an advance and only wished that I could have a say on when it actually went live.
Thanks again! Can't wait till it becomes a regular feature...
Hi there,
As I mentioned earlier, love the feature.
Found a slight bug.
Tried to post two posts at the same time (scheduled for am the next day) and neither posted.
Regards,
Yoni
Just tried it out and it works. This...THIS is what I have been waiting for!!! I knew that Blogger would give us scheduled posts someday...what a wonderful surprise this afternoon to find that it's here! Thank you!!! :o)
this is useful as it addresses bloggers' readers' needs too.
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The only problem I have had is that people that have signed up for email updates from feedburner are not getting emailed.
Other than that, the only problem I have had is that a post I had set for a later time posted immediatley. Turns out I was not signed in to blogger draft, but reguar blogger.
Just a tip, not that any of you would ever do that.
The FTP and BlogSend bugs have been fixed.
Let us know how it goes.
email feeds via feedburner worked great today. Very nice feature.
Is it me? Am I the only person who still can't get this to work?
I scheduled three tests to be published tomorrow - 23 April at 6:20 - All three were posted immediately and yes I am using Blogger in Draft.
However - does it make a difference that I am working through Firefox and not Internet Explorer? - just a thought.
I just tried it today for the first time and it worked! This is a very nice feature. Thanks Blogger people for making it available!
Joyce, I tried it with Firefox 2 and it worked without any problems. I scheduled the post last night, to post early this morning and it showed as "scheduled" in the post listings page.
This might be off-topic but, will blogger in draft have the ability to make posts private or password protected? It's the one feature I really need. Thanks!
This feature is awesome. Thanks for adding it.
hello! ok! it works fine!
but could we have a "Most Read" gadget in blogger with the most read posts and option to show last 24H, last 7dasy or last 30 days?
I hope you are working on like this...
I have now used this at least half a dozen times without any glitches whatsoever! Go Draft!
@Simos, that is a great idea! I've been doing this manually, and an automated gadget would be very helpful.
Also, is it possible to add a "Related posts" widget that goes at the bottom of the post, and this can either be done by Labels (show post with one or more labels), or the Blogger system can automagically match them up.
Hi all! Scheduled post publishing is now published to www.blogger.com, so I'm closing off the comments.
Thanks for all of your bug-finding. You really helped us make this feature solid.
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