Wordpress: Post Timestamp Feature
It seems like half of this blog is dedicated to my complaints concerning my own lack of organization and focus while I spread myself too thin. With 4 forums and 8 blogs I’ve now restricted myself to “focusing” on, it seems I’ve still bitten off more than I can chew. Why? Well because when I start working or writing for a site I start to get into a “groove” and as soon as I do, I force myself to move onto the next site on the “list”, making sure I spread my energy out equally.
While this distributes my work evenly over all of my sites, it drastically lowers my productivity. It takes time to shift mindsets and bring up all the tools and ideas necessary to start working on a new project. I also leave behind some unfinished work and ideas that get left in the dust. Wow, this is annoying.
Enter the Wordpress Timestamp. I’ve known about this for quite some time now but have never tried to implement it’s use. Why? Because I’m stubborn I suppose. But nonetheless I’ve come around and this little feature is going to increase my productivity exponentially.
The idea is, you can write as many posts and set them to automatically publish at a date and time of your choice by selecting the date and time of the timestamp. I had been, and will continue to, attempt at making a minimum of one post on each blog per day. The main reasons I want to do this are:
- To give the search engines new information to index on a daily basis, letting them know that my site is active.
- To give search engines new content which provides additional keywords and doorways for organic traffic.
- To keep my site updated and fresh, giving people who do visit the site a reason to come back frequently - they can bank on the fact that there will likely be new content to check out every day.
Now, whenever I get in a groove I’ll simply keep on writing. I’ll write as much content and as many articles as my little heart desires. I’ve made a list in a physical notebook, each blog getting it’s own day. I’ll list how far in advance my posts go, so for example, today (Sunday, March 25th) I’ve written enough articles to get through Sunday, March 31st with one post per day. I timestamped accordingly and my notebook shows that I don’t need another post for that category until April 1st.
Now when I go through my list of priorities it will be much different. I will look at which blogs don’t have any posts coming up, focus on that blog for several hours, and I won’t have to pick that project back up for about another week when the timestamp posts run out. It will allow me to delve into a single project and focus on it for as long as I need to or want to.
That being said, some posts are time sensitive and you can’t predict that they’ll come up nor do you want to set a timestamp for it to post next week. It will be old news. I’m not suggesting timestamping will replace these posts, only that it will lay a solid groundworking to have each blog updated daily while increasing productivity and decreasing the perceived work load.
If you’re not yet using the timestamp feature I urge you to begin. I already know this will mean great things for my “business” and if you are in fact trying to build a business, you need to take advantage of all the tools you can. Don’t do what I did, which is put off learning something new to stick with the status quo. Take some advice, do yourself a favor and start using timestamps.
That means now!
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I’ve used the time stamp and I really like being able to keep writing posts when the motivation strikes and not have to copy and paste later.
Editing the time stamp is also good to use before a vacation or break. I will be using it on a blog that I’m about to launch so the new visitors will be assured regular posts for at least two months after launch.