I tend to get ideas in bursts, they never seem to come one at a time. And they tend to all land on one focus - so I end up getting a lot of ideas for one blog, none for the others. Sometimes it is easier to write a series of articles at one time, or to just go with the inspiration when it hits. I’ve taken to scheduling ahead when I get a flood all at once.

Most blogging platforms allow you to schedule posts in advance, and to specify the date and time that they will appear. In WordPress, this is called “Post Timestamp”. Change that, and it changes the time your post will appear.

This feature is usually promoted as a way to compensate for vacation time, or other events. But it is also a great way to just start getting ahead, with a pre-archive of articles, allowing you to write when you feel like it, relax when you don’t, without having to build a separate archive of stuff on your local computer.

I like to write once, and be done with it. I have some sites in Joomla which require that I write the article in a separate document, then paste it in and remove the formatting that came in from the program I wrote it in, then reformat. The system times out otherwise and I lose my work. I like that WordPress does not time out. I can do everything within a single environment. So writing ahead, and scheduling, saves me a little time too, because I don’t have to copy and paste.

With four blogs to manage, keeping up with posts takes a little time each day. By spending about an hour a day, I can keep up with all four, and get ahead a little for those days when I cannot post. This is something I intend to run with!