Post scheduling options
All 3 posting related tools share similar posting schedule options.
These tools are:
- Upload WP post
- Create WP xml
- Email post
This is the posting schedule UI for the upload WP post tool.
Most other tools share the same options.
How SCM will schedule posts to a blog
Given the default settings below, this is how SCM will schedule your posts.
- SCM will find all article files in your article folder
- It will distribute those articles equally amongst all your selected blogs
- For each blog, it uploads the first article using the post start date then increments using the schedule date.
- Each blog has its own schedule.
If you have 500 posts, and 5 blogs selected, each blog will have 100 posts uploaded. Each post on each blog will start from the post start date.
This might not be great for 10 posts with 10 blogs selected, as it means all 10 posts will be uploaded on the same start date!
Notice how each blog is assigned 1 post, and each post is scheduled to appear on the same date.
If you want to stagger these posts over several days…
How upload posts to all your blogs using a shared schedule
Using a shared schedule allows you to distribute your articles equally to all blogs in a round robin fashion.
Each blog is assigned a post, and each post schedule will increment from the last used post date.
To use this feature, enable ‘Shared schedule’
Notice how after shared schedule is enabled, the post date is incrementing by the post schedule regardless of the selected blog.
So instead of all 3 posts appearing live on the same day, it appears live 1 day apart.
How it works:
- SCM will find all article files in your article folder (same as before)
- Go through each selected blog and assign posts in a round robin fashion
- Each time a post is assigned to a blog, the post schedule is used to calculate the next post date.
- The next post date is used when it comes to assigning a post to the next blog.
- The post start date is only used once!