5 Ways Scheduling Blog Posts will Change your Life

Last updated on 27 May 2025

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I’ve discovered the wonders of blog post scheduling

I’ve been blogging here for the past four years, but I actually started blogging in 2008, which seems like a long time to me. But it wasn’t until about 3 years ago that I really discovered the joys and wonders of scheduling blog posts. Spoiler alert: it changed my life.

If you’re just starting out in the blogging world, then this post is for you. It’s a list of five ways scheduling your posts will change your blogging life and it’s a list I wish I knew about when I started blogging myself. Some of the things I’m about to list might seem obvious, yes, but sometimes it’s helpful to be reminded of them. I’m so glad I’m learning these blogging tips as I go along, and I hope that me sharing them with you is helpful.

Five ways scheduling blog posts will change your life

Decrease in pressure

If you post once a day, or even several times a week, then it becomes stressful when you wake up on post day only to realise that you haven’t written anything, and there’s currently nothing happening on your blog. It’s then a scramble to think of something and get it posted ASAP. Scheduling posts avoids this.

If you post at night, then scheduling allows you to go about your day without thinking too much about what it is you should be posting. It’s already waiting for that time to tick around and publish itself.

Have an idea for next month? No worries!

Do you have an idea for a post for next month? Or maybe it’s still February but you had a fabulous idea for a Halloween post? No worries at all!

You can write it all up and create the posts while it’s fresh in your mind, and schedule it for October. It will then sit nicely in your posts lists, but not be published until the day you’ve set it to. You can always go back to it later if you have another idea, or think of a way to tweak something.

If you’re on a roll, don’t stop

If you have an idea for a series of posts and want to publish them once a week for the next month, then you don’t have to wait until the day rolls around each week.

Much like creating posts months in advance, scheduling posts means you can sit down one day and write x amount of posts in a series, and then schedule them for when you want…and forget about them for a while.

Schedule for busy periods

If you know that May, for example, is going to be a really busy month for you, by scheduling posts, you can write them up for May as they come to you, and programme them to publish themselves.

When the busy month comes around, you don’t have to eat into your sleep time by staying up late and writing blog posts. You’ve already done it. Better yet, schedule all the social media to go along with that post while you’re at it!

Figure out the best time of day to schedule

Because a lot of my readers are from New Zealand, but also England (having lived in both countries, the majority of my views come from these two countries), I’ve figured out that 7am NZ time is a good time to have a post published. It’s early enough in the morning in New Zealand that people reading blogs over breakfast are more likely to see new posts, and it’s late enough in the evening in England that people who look at their blog feeds after dinner will catch it. It is also around lunchtime in America, so that’s an added bonus. I’ve also discovered around 6pm works for similar reasons.

Once you figure out what the best time is for where you live in the world, and you can see that a certain time your posts are being viewed more, then schedule your posts for this time. If you find it’s not working very well, change the time! To figure out what the best times are for you, schedule posts at different times and see where your traffic goes.

While these seem like obvious things, and scheduling really is just being organised for the future, it really did change the way I blogged when I figured it all out. Once you’ve got this down, your blogging will become a well-oiled machine. Of course, you still have to have the motivation to write the posts, and the ideas, and images, and general thoughts, but even if you have a mind blank as to what to write, schedule a post about scheduling posts!

BONUS: How to Schedule posts using WordPress and Blogger

WordPress

Click on Posts, and then Add New. On the right-hand side under Publish there is a line which will tell you your Publishing status, e.g.: Publish Immediately. Click on the little ‘edit’ next to this. Here’s where you can put in your day and time that you want your post to be published. Click Okay. And Publish. Done.

Blogger

Create a new post. Then, on the right-hand side of your screen there are the Post Settings. If nothing is there, you need to click the little arrow next to Post Settings and a drop-down menu will appear. Click Schedule.

Blogger always has it set to Automatic, but if you click Set Date and Time, a little calendar will appear and you can choose your day and then what time you’d like your post to be published. Hit Done. When your post is finished, click Publish. It will now appear in your posts list with the orange word Scheduled next to it.