Scheduled Posts Finally Hit Blogger

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

While Google seems way ahead in some things, it’s not the case when it comes to its Blogger service. But they’ve finally added something they should have added long ago: scheduled posts.

Until now, when you post something, no matter what time you set for the post, it went live immediately. With the new feature, you can schedule a post to go live at a certain time, a feature other services such WordPress have offered for quite some time.

Just to be clear, however, this only applies if you use Blogger in Draft, meaning if you login to draft.blogger.com. Use the main Blogger page and posts will go live immediately.

Now, what if you want your posts to go live right away, but postdate them so you can pin a post to the top of the page? You can still do that, according to Google. As they say in the announcement of the new feature:

We know that some bloggers currently use future post dates in order to keep one post at the top of their blog for a while. Though we recommend that you use a Text page element for this, you can still get this old behavior with just one additional step. First, publish your post with the current date and time. This will publish it to your blog. Then, once it’s published, edit the post to change the date to the future and publish it again. We don’t re-schedule posts that are already published, so the post will stay on your blog but sort to the very top.

Nice to see there’s still some things that Google has to play catch-up on, but also nice to see that they are doing so.