Last updated on August 1st, 2018 at 06:18 pm
If you’ve started a blog, congratulations. Now it’s time to learn how to schedule posts on WordPress and start batching your content.
I know what you’re thinking, what is batching and why should I start?
As a new blogger, it’s exciting to think about the all the possibilities that a blog can bring. After all, you most likely have seen people’s income reports online that promise you that you can make thousands per month with your blog.
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Hey Susan!
This is a great tip for bloggers.
Batch content creation is the way to go. I didn’t do this at the beginning of my blogging journey and it was hard to be consistently publishing new content. What a dummy I was! haha
If you want to be publishing unique content on a regular basis, it only makes sense to do this. It saves you a lot of time and stress. For real!
As you mentioned, everyone has their own way of doing this. I, personally, like to do my batch content creation in one of my WordPress Blog. And no, hitting the publish button by accident has not happened to me so far. To prevent such thing from happening I would suggest having a “test” WordPress Site where you can just create and save your upcoming content (and I see you already have such site).
I just like the WordPress Content Editor. I’m very used to it. And I can access it from any computer with internet access – just like you would your Google Docs. I do use Google Docs sometimes, as well.
Another reason why I like to create a bunch of blog posts inside my WordPress – is because if I’m going to submit a new guest blog post I’d like to see how it would look like published as I’m crafting the masterpiece. ๐
Oh I’m very excited to try out the new WordPress Content Editor called ‘Gutenberg’.
This new content editor should make it easier for the writer to focus a lot better.
This is smart blogging!
I highly recommend the new blogger to take these tips seriously.
Thank you for sharing Susan!
Best regards! ๐
Hi Freddy,
Glad to hear that you’re batching your content as well. It’s definitely a lot easier than trying to sit down and write it the day that it needs to be published.
I’ve actually haven’t heard of the Gutenberg WordPress editor.
Let me know how it goes for you, I’d love to hear about it.
Thanks for taking the time to stop by and comment.
Have a great day ๐
Susan
Hey Susan,
Everytime, I am visit on your website so I felt amazing because you share amazing content with us.
Thanks for sharing these type amazing posts.
Hi Basit,
I am glad that you enjoy the information that I share and find it helpful. I try my best to share information that you can use.
Thanks for taking the time to stop by and comment.
Have a great day ๐
Susan
Hey Susan,
Awesome resource! I was a terrific practicer of batch processing until baby #2 arrived ๐ Now I just “almost” process rather than batch process hahaha..
Jokes aside, batch processing is aHUGE time saver and is a system that helps you accomplish a lot of things. When you batch and complete one particular type of tasks you get a sense of big achievement, because in fact you have accomplished a lot.
Batch processing also saves you the mental effort of having to switch back and forth between different types of tasks – with batching you just focus on one kind of task and get it done. Much easier on the brain and leaves you with lesser exhaustion.
Thanks for sharing your method. By the way, the Long Tail Pro aff link leads to a not found page – you might want to fix that.
Cheers,
Jane.
Hi Jane,
Yeah, I get it batching is a time saver. I don’t mind the writing, my problem is making the time to go back and proofread the content. I hate proofreading.
Thanks for the Long Tail affiliate heads up, they changed my affiliate link and I wasn’t aware of it.
Have a great day ๐
Susan
Great post Susan, I can’t seem to get the downloadable pdf file to open. I saved it twice and both times it says it is corrupted or wrong format. I really hoped to see how Post Gopher worked.
Hi Connie,
I am sorry you keep getting that error. I just tried it and didn’t see any errors at all. Did you check your downloadable files, it should be there.
I’ve personally been using the plugin to help me grow my email list and haven’t had any complaints, otherwise, I would’ve contacted the developers of the plugin.
Thanks for taking the time to stop by and comment.
Have a great day ๐
Susan
This is yet another awesome tutorial Susan,
Writing batches is something I’ve not really taken so serious even though I know of its importance, I’ll have to work something out though.
For me, I always prefer writing on Microsoft Word document first before moving it over to my blog. I also, sometimes, uses Google spreadsheet to write.
However, i don’t really think it matters much where you write your posts, the most important thing is always to get it done right?
Hi Anil,
Batch writing has definitely helped me keep up with my blogging schedule.
You’re right, it really doesn’t matter where you write your blog posts. The most important thing is to just get ahead if possible.
Thanks for taking the time to stop by and comment.
Have a great day ๐
Susan
Helo Susan,
Thanks for sharing. Just a few hours ago, I scheduled a post for Monday. Though I don’t do it often but it’s an interesting way to save time for me and improve my productivity.
When I’m done scheduling, I can focus on something else.
Thanks for sharing.
Emenike
Hi Emenike,
I always schedule my posts in advance. Glad you’re using it to help you stay more productive.
Thanks for taking the time to stop by and comment.
Have a great day ๐
Susan
Hi Susan,
I really love the content batching concept. I haven’t done it before, buy after reading your article, I believe batching is an amazing way to get much done in less time.
However, as you pointed out, everyone has his/her own way of creating content for the further. I have mistakenly hit the publish button more than once, so for now I’m using Google docs to write my articles, save them in Google Drive and just copy and paste on WordPress for publishing.
Thanks a lot Susan!
Hi Moss,
Batching is what makes it easier for me to take time off from my blog and focus on other things in my business. Right now, I already have all my posts written for April and am starting on May.
Although, I still need to proof them and create the images. But I couldn’t imagine keeping up with my blog if I didn’t batch my content.
Thanks for taking the time to stop by and comment.
Have a great day ๐
Susan
HI Susan, I’d love to be in the process of batching but I have 2 issues, one is time and the other is the relevancy of long time posts. Most of my posts are about recent updates to Twitter and a social media so I can’t do those in advance more than a few days. BUT if I were better organized I could do some that way and would love to.
You may have inspired me to look at a calendar and put some tutorials in between those that need to go asap for the relevancy.
Thank you Susan and have a wonderful weekend!
Hi Lisa,
It’s funny that you mention that, because sometimes a blog post will be published and I completely forgot what I wrote about.
I can only imagine that it would be more challenging to batch content for Twitter and trying to keep up with their updates.
I’ve started writing quite a bit about Pinterest. I always write about it from my personal experience and what I am doing. I always make it a point to say as of right now.
This seems to work for me. Of course, if something totally changes, then I’ll go in and make changes to the post.
Good luck and let me know if you do start batching your content. Batching definitely makes it a lot easier for me to focus on other things and know that my blog will always have fresh content.
Thanks for taking the time to stop by and comment.
Have a great day ๐
Susan