Blogger Supports Future Posting
May 1st, 2008Blogger announced today that they now officially support scheduled posting.
What does this mean for MarsEdit users? It means the nifty future posting technique that I described in a previous blog post will now work with Blogger.
In short, all you have to do is set the date (from the Post menu -> Edit Date) before you send your post to the server, and if it’s in the future, Blogger will automatically delay publishing of the post until that time. This brings Blogger’s behavior in this regard into line with WordPress, which also supports implied future posting by date. You’re next, Movable Type :)
I haven’t thoroughly tested this because it just became available, but I sent a post to my Blogger blog with a date of two minutes into the future, and sure enough it didn’t show up until the 2 minute time had elapsed. As always, I recommend testing this feature on your own blog before posting anything of a time-sensitive nature.
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Where have you been Movable Type has supported future posts back in 2004?!
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Jeremy: what I’m alluding to is the specific behavior of interpreting a future dated post from a remote client, as a scheduled post.
Movable Type supports scheduled posts, but there’s no way to take advantage of this functionality from a remote client such as MarsEdit.
Now that both Blogger and WordPress behave in this (enlightened, IMHO) way, I’m hoping that it will further encourage MT to do the same.
June 11th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Man I wish Drupal supported this feature. I miss having it from when I ran WordPress for my blog. But Drupal is so much more powerful.
June 12th, 2008 at 4:08 am
Hi Jim – it would be cool if they supported it. I recommend asking in their forums whether anybody feels like implementing it in Drupal!