A life hack for blogger and online artists and everbody else who’s creating web content. (In case I’m not the last person on the planet who has found this out.)

It’s a very simple hack: Use your blog’s backend to schedule your content for publishing. Most blog systems allow scheduling, and even some social media platforms.

With WordPress, it’s very easy. If you create a new post, the standard setting for publishing is immediately. Just click “Immediately” and a calendar view will pop up to the left. Now you can conventiently pick your desired date and time and close the calendar by clicking the closing x.

Now your chosen publishing date should show instead of “immediately”.

Especially when you have a neurodivergent operating system (like ADHD or Autism) you can get easily overwhelmed by the pressure to create new content. Every. Single. Week. I know that it’s not working for myself at all.

Finding out I can schedule my posts is a true game changer. Now I can prepare some posts all at once while I do have the engergy and dopamine to do so and trust in my blog system to publish it at the set time. No need to remind myself to do so. No need to do it every week. So far it’s working great and I’m headdesking about why I didn’t find out earlier.

But even if you don’t suffer from task avoidance/task paralysis, the scheduling tool is very handy. If you’re a busy content creator and don’t want to work 24/7 you can do your workload all at once and distribute scheduling evenly over the next days.

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DS