WordPress Future Posting
I love to use WordPress’s future posting feature. It lets me write a bunch of blog posts when I’m away, or I can write 5 or 6 on a Sunday when I have time, and then have them launch throughout the week to keep my posting schedule consistent. But I recently wrote a bunch of posts and found some links to those articles through Technorati even though they aren’t supposed to get launched until next week.
When I do a future post through WordPress, I write it as I normally do, but when I publish it, I make sure to check the ‘Edit Timestamp’ checkbox and set the time stamp date to the day I want the post to launch on. This keeps the post out of your navigation, home page, archives, and category pages, but if you go to the URL before the launch date, you can still access it. This is great for testing, but I found that some of the posts I did had already generated some links before they were supposed to be launched.
I’m assuming the way I got those links was I must have inadvertently pinged Technorati when I published the posts, but shouldn’t those posts have not pinged Technorati if I had the time stamp edited to a future date?
