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Benefit: Tactics for post management help produce daily or regular posting, which encourages frequent search engine indexing for your site.
Problem: By default, WordPress content is either a post or a page, which limits it’s functionality as a content management system (CMS).
Practical WordPress Tip: Posts which are important yet difficult to finish can be dated well in the past to remove them from the head of your Drafts queue.
Here’s how: Really easy, just change the date on these posts to move them from the front page of your Edit Posts page. A date before the oldest published post works well.
Why: Having a healthy drafts queue provides a lot of fodder for regular posting. But many drafts never really go anywhere, or require substantial effort to finish. You need to have these articles archived somewhere. The bottom of your Drafts queue is as good a place as any. For example, I’ve re-dated all Drafts in the C programming category at There Is NO Box to January 1, 2006. I’ll continue writing on C programming in the future, but not in the near future.
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On a related note, drafts that are completed and ready to be published can be scheduled creating a queue of posts to be published.
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Wow, Dave, and here I thought I was the only one who used that technique. Sometimes, though, I don’t even bother pre-dating them if I know I’ll finish them within a few days or so.
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It seems like some times my drafts end up at the end of the queue on accident – I checked one of my blogs and had old drafts I had completely forgotten about!
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@Walter – The Scheduling feature is truly awesome!
@Larry – It’s scary how few of our ideas are unique. Most of what we think up has been thought up by somebody else, or will be thought up shortly, completely independently.
@Sean – I’m toying with the idea of an article on using WordPress as a CMS. I know it’s being touted as a CMS, but that’s by people that don’t know much about a real CMS system. We’ll see. I’m not an (absolute) expert in the CMS field, but I know a bit about it.
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