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Organizing your blog post in advance is really a thing that most bloggers struggle with. Even I struggled a lot when I was new to the world of blogging.
Somehow, I felt I haven’t come across the perfect way of planning and scheduling blog posts.
There was no solution to this problem until WordPress came up with the WordPress Editorial Calendar plug-in.
I don’t know about other folks but I find it perfect for scheduling my blog posts. That’s why I’d like to share with you the features of this plug-in that I’ve come to love.
Let’s take a look at six reasons why every blog writer will love the WordPress Editorial Calendar Plug-In:
Planning Your Blog Posts Is Easier Now
With the editorial calendar you can not only view blog posts up to five weeks but also schedule any number of posts by clicking the month in the calendar. So you can have a record of the scheduled blog posts and also those that are saved and need to be finalized.
The Whole Calendar Can Be Viewed On One Screen
Instead of browsing through all the draft posts, the Editorial Calendar Plug-in helps you to view them on one single page. It is advantageous to those who have lots of blog posts lined up.
Rescheduling Blog Posts Have Also Become Easy
This WordPress plug-in is drag and drop. So if you have scheduled a blog for a day (say Tuesday the 21st) you can drag it to reschedule it for some other day (Tuesday the 28th).
Structure Your Blog Content
When you can view all the scheduled blog posts at a glance it becomes easy for you to find out whether you have missed out a specific topic or not. In the Editorial Calendar you will also have an option for quick edit as well as to change titles of blog posts, content and even publishing time if required.
Be More Creative With Editorial Calendar Plug-In
Organizing your blog posts, so far have taken quite a lot of your precious time. The Editorial Calendar saves your time that would have gone into scheduling or rescheduling your blog posts. So you can be more creative and devote more time in what you are best at, writing content.
The Visits to Your Blog Increases
Fresh and time-sensitive content keeps the readers engaged in your blog. The number of visitors increases as readers seek for timely posts. Even the search engines respond to regular and frequent posts and send more searches on your way.
Drawbacks of Editorial Calendar Plug-In
The Editorial Calendar Plug-In comes with a few limitations, though not many. One of the most annoying that I find is that the draft posts that have been created before the plug-in was installed don’t appear automatically in the editorial calendar. So once you have installed the plug-in it is best to use it for creating the draft posts.
Have you used the WordPress Editorial Calendar Plug-In? Let’s us know what you think about it in the comments below.
About the Author: Emma Hamilton is a freelance content writer and she writes articles and blogs on Time Warner Cable and others Web technologies.
Thanks for the information on the WordPress Editorial Calendar. I normally stick with the default “schedule post” feature built into WordPress, however, I am willing to reconsider.
One concern I have is whether this plugin will work with third party publishing tools (i.e. Microsoft Live Writer). Do you know if it will pickup drafts submitted by this?
Thanks!
Terry
MN Web Devs » I’ll have to try that because I do use Microsoft’s Live Writer occasionally.
It’s actually a great and helpful piece of information on the WordPress Editorial Calendar. I am happy that you shared this helpful information with us. Please stay us informed like this. Thank you for sharing.
Really helpful. As i’ve just installed this now. And was browsing around. Looking forward to working with it. I’ same as above usually stick to the schedule post” feature built into WordPress.
Thanks for the info.
Ver interrested article, its a good info for me, i have a wordpress, and i thing is very good to promote a blog like me . thanks for sharing info with us
As I am working on it,can list some features.They are:
1. See all of your posts and when they’ll be posted.
2. Drag and drop to change your post dates.
3. Quickedit post titles, contents, and times.
4. Publish posts or manage drafts.
5. Easily see the status of your posts.
6. Manage posts from multiple authors.
Interesting article to share.Thanks.
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And here is another tool to make the live of a blogger easyer. Will give tis a go.
Thanks for the update
It’s best to write most of your blog posts on a good day. The calendar comes in handy because it allows your posts to automatically be added to your blog on days when you don’t feel like blogging.
WordPress doesn’t make it easy to see when your posts are scheduled. The editorial calendar gives you an overview of your blog and when each post will be published. You can drag and drop to move posts, edit posts right in the calendar, and manage your entire blog.
That’s a very good plug in. I run a number of entertainment and travel related blogs and, because I work from home, I think this would help me plan content writing and publishing. Is it fully compatible with the latest version of WP?
I was searching a calender plugin that would be beautiful and increase the attractiveness of the page..Thanks for sharing these plug ins for my stuff.
I have been told to go and open a Word press blog account to make web mini sites and I am wanting to know if you have better ideas or simply more ideas? Advise for Word press would be great as well!
Plugins from WordPress makes our life simple. rather than making a script or code, what we need is upload,install, activate and configure. I will try this plugin for my site.
Thanks for this information and keep up the good work in this website. Cheers!
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Awesome
Thanks for telling about this plug-in, Gotta use this on my blogs now.
I usually just use the normal schedule post and never even considered using a separate plugin for something like scheduling a post. I’ll have to dig a little deeper. thanks!
Thanks for the informations about this plug-in! Very useful!
Serious bloggers usually utilize an editorial calendar in some form to assist in their personal organization and productivity..
I ve been on blogger for quite a while and I was looking for some solid reason to shift to wordpress and after going through this post I think I have enough reasons now, and I should start looking for resources to shift to wordpress.
I have used wordpress since i started blogging and doing website design. I was satisfied the way WP create its plugins, for us web dev makes our jobs more easy. I will try this editorial calendar soon. thanks.
Its nice to have that little reminder, Ill for sure try it out. The hard part though, is actually sitting down to write the post! haha
I think this calendar will help with time management but I’m not sure how it works — is this something that readers of your website will see, or is it just something that pops up in editorial mode? I guess the easy answer is to download and use it.
I am a WP user but I have never heard about WordPress Editorial Calendar Plug-In. From your description it seems the plugin is very helpful to monitor articles. Thanks for share
thank you for this great post. I didn’t know this plugin, but i think i try this out. so thank you
I have been using WP as my personal blog 5 months ago but I never know about this kind of plugin. This calendar plugin from WP is great for time management and I want to have it on my blog.
I am working in word press it is a very good software it should be a great post to every one
Indeed wordpress editorial calendar is really handy specially the re-scheduling feature is (in my opinion) best and most useful further more, for every blogger you can schedule posts in an organised way.
Blog looking good, before reading this article i don’t about the wordpress editorial calendar plugin. Now i got an idea with this and thanks for sharing such great information.
good info, thanks for sharing info with us. I didn’t know this plugin, i will try it. so thank you
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i will definitely try out this plugin thanks for sharing this plugin 🙂
Thanks for this wonderful and useful plug in information. I don’t have any idea about it. This information is very useful. Thanks again. Keep posting.
You did a great job. I am new in blogging and I was searching for something like this. Thank you very much for the article.
The calendar plugin in is a wonderful plugin that I use in all my word-press blogs. I forwarded this post to all of my colleagues
with my personal recommendation
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