2009 27/11

The Ultimate Editorial Calender Plugin for Post Scheduling

Anyone who writes posts ahead of time and schedules them for future publishing knows the frustration of trying to decide when to publish a certain post, or worse yet, how to move things around when you’ve come back and written a time sensitive post and need to insert it and bump everything else up a day or two.

There has long been a need for an Editorial Calendar plugin for Wordpress, and thanks to a great guy and fellow member of the Problogger.com community, we now have one. Zack began a thread on the forum a few weeks ago, asking people what they’d like to see in a plugin, and he took all our replies to heart and came up with a rocking plugin!

The Editorial Calender plugin is available via the Wordpress Plugin directory: Plugin Page

With this plugin you can easily see all published, scheduled, and draft posts. You can click, drag, and drop a post to any day you want, or simply click on it for a little more information.

I think multi-author blogs will also benefit greatly from this plugin.

Tell me, how long have you waited for something like this?? Will this tool save you time?

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Zack Grossbart

Hey Erica,

Thank you for the post about my calendar. It's so wonderful to see it used by other bloggers. We're hard at work on the next version with a new look and some great new features. We'd love to hear your feedback. What features would you like to see in the calendar?

Thanks,
Zack

EricaMueller

Zach,

I've been so thrilled with this plugin! I use the calendar several times a week to rearrange my posts. The only thing I haven't liked is the notice I get when I've already moved a post once. The post appears to have moved to the day I drug it to, then I get this notice. The post looks like it's in the right spot, but has this little dot bouncing on it and I can't click on or move it again.

I know this was set up for a reason, I just wish I could continue to drag, drop and rearrange... unlimited times.

Otherwise, this tool is fantastic and by far one of my favorite blogging tools to date!

Zack Grossbart

Erica,

It sounds like you found a bug. You should be able to move a post as many times as you want. I just tried it in my development version I moved a single post over a dozen times. What version are you using? Do you get any error messages?

Thanks,
Zack

EricaMueller

ah ha! Seems there was an update I needed. I just upgraded it and now it's working fine. Odd thing was, it worked fine when I first got it and had only been doing that the past few days. I check my plugins every few days but somehow I missed this one.

Thanks!!

Zack Grossbart

I fixed a bug in the latest version that was about date formats so it only showed up some of the time. I'm glad the latest version fixed it for you. Thanks for sticking with it.

iWoodpecker

Ok, very good advice. But.. be careful speaking about your future posts :)

Robert Bravery

Now that's very useful. Only if I had Wordpress blog.
This has always been something that I have been wanting for Dotnetnuke. looks like I might have to write one myself.

EricaMueller

Yea, maybe you could take some of this guy's ideas and make something that would work for you!! Then, offer it to other users. :-)

Patty Reiser

Thanks for the update on this plugin Erica. I too saw this on ProBlogger and I was interested. I haven't been too active on blogs or forums this past week as I was busy with projects for clients and the holiday.

EricaMueller

I know. Me either. I haven't been too active anywhere. I feel like I'm living in a snow globe right now and someone keeps picking it up and shaking it. Everything is still here, it's just in different places and stages at different times and my mind feels discombobulated.

Kevin Tea

This looks great. I have only just found the normal schedule faciloity in Wordpress and Live Writer - this looks like a turbo-charged variety!

EricaMueller

Turbo charged is right!! You actually still schedule the posts as you had been, within the editor. But, if you wish to move it around later you can do it from the calendar view instead of editing each post individually.

Andrew Blanda

Awesome! I particularly like the drag and drop! :-)

EricaMueller

Me too! In fact, that was one of the most asked for featured when Zach was asking for suggestions. I think he did a great job!

Jimi Jones

This is great. Can't wait to load and play :-)

Mike CJ

If I used WP, I'd be really happy! :)

EricaMueller

You should!! I was going to ask, are you using Posterous? Or did I see somewhere that you use Drupal? Your theme for Mike's Life looks familiar, and I thought maybe I'd seen it via my Posterous dashboard.

Mike CJ

I'm a Drupal user - may be too late to change as we have half a dozen sites on Drupal now.

EricaMueller

Yea, it's hard once you've got yourself established elsewhere to move, especially when it's more than one site!! I have a client who used Blogger for years and she's now gradually moving to WP, one site at a time. It's quite a tedious project to get everything just the way you want it!

Andrew Rondeau

Now that looks like a very useful plugin - just in time for Christmas. Thanks for sharing.

Andrew

EricaMueller

You're most welcome!! I hope you find it useful. I know I will!!!!

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