Visually Manage Your Post Publication Dates with the Editorial Calendar WordPress Plugin
By Dave Moyer, posted Jan 12 2010 at 1:00 pm | 1 Comment ยป
If you’ve been blogging for a while, you probably are starting to figure out that there are certain times when it’s best to publish your posts – for instance, here at WordCast, the majority of our content goes out on a scheduled basis every morning, as that is when most of our readers visit the site and when our listeners download our podcasts onto their iPod, mp3 player, or computer.
A challenge can arise when the volume of posts put out on a given day or week increases. Let’s say that, on a Monday morning, you have a new post that you want to work in with the others already scheduled to be published that day, but you forgot what time the posts you’ve already submitted are set to be published. You can go into your WordPress administration interface, look at each post individually and try to keep track in your head of what’s going out when, but that’s a recipe for a future post disaster.
When we were first putting together the WordCast network, we stumbled upon Editorial Calendar, a plugin that has already become essential to our daily workflow on the site. It creates a full calendar of all scheduled posts in your WordPress admin interface, and allows you to drag and drop posts to different days, edit their times, even change the title or delete the post entirely, just from the expandable menus. If you’ve used online calendar apps like Google Calendar, you’ll feel right at home.
The plugin is currently in beta, but we haven’t had any problems as of yet. Try it out and let us know what you think!
Thank you so much for the great write up about my plugin. The latest version has a new look and feel and many more great features. We are hard at work on version 0.7 and would love to hear your feedback. What features would you like to see in the next release? What works well and what doesn’t?