Because of MckLinky, I’m often asked “how to I get a link to my actual blog post when I’m not going to publish it until later?”
Here’s a quick way…
- Write your post
- Publish the post for just a few seconds
- Now to get the link (called the “permalink”) you have two choices:
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- Option One: click on “Edit Posts” to go back to your list of blog posts. Then RIGHT CLICK the “View” link next to the post you need a link to, and choose “copy link location” (or whatever similar choice in your browser) from that list. Go back to EDIT POSTS…
- Option Two: Click “View Blog”, and copy the link to the post; you can do this quickly by RIGHT CLICKING on the blog post title and choosing a command similar to “Copy Link Location”…. or you can click on the blog post title, and the address will now be in your browser address field
- Back in the EDIT POSTS list, click Edit next to the post you are working with (I’m describing Blogger; do whatever is similar if you use something else like WordPress)
- Click “Save as Draft” – this removes the blog post from being published.
- Go back to Edit that post again
- Click Post Options if you need to schedule the post, or you can choose to wait and publish it manually at the appropriate time
- Schedule the post time and date
- Click Publish Post and now your post will appear whenever you scheduled it
Sounds like a lot, but it’s not. Basically you are 1) writing the post, 2) publishing it, 3) grabbing the link, 4) putting it back in draft mode, then 5) schedule and publish.
Once you do it a couple of times, and understand “why” you do the steps, it is very easy to remember and do. It’s an extremely useful technique to know.
I put up a demonstration here:
http://www.brentriggs.com/online_demos/default.asp It’s the first demo, marked “New!”
If anyone knows a Blogger trick that’s better than this or how to do it in other platforms like WordPress, show us some blogger love and leave a comment.
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Brent, I'm not sure how this is going to work for me since I have a Craft it Wednesday meme. I ususally post a new craft on Tues. evening or Wed. till the following Tues./Wed. and a new one goes up. I'm not sure how to do this so it works for me since the blog giveaways are on Fridays. I posted the link this week anyway and will post the blog hop again next week. I guess???
Brent, I feel stupid, but I still don't understand why you'd want to link to a post on Mcklinky before you publish it. I just don't understand; could you (or anyone) give me an example of when this situation would be a useful trick? Thanks so much!
Thank you for the tutorial. I had to read it several times but finally got it. This is also useful when I'm blogging & want to post it later. THANK YOU!!!
Hey Brent, I'm totally loving these helpful blogging tips! I've changed the way I blog because of you! I just watched your "resizing pictures in blogger" demo and can't wait to try it tonight. Thanks for all you put into this!
Thank you so much for this demo. I have been wanting to do this with blogger for a long time and had no idea how to do it. Going to make my life a whole lot easier.
Fabulous post. OK . . .so then, is there a way to then have the post that is dated in the future, somehow show up on Mr. MckLinky? Like say you are going on vacation, have your post scheduled to post on Tuesday for the Blog Hop . . . but you aren't around to enter it into the blog hop. How could I enter the link, without going to that seperate page, while I am gone? Does that make sense? Oh, and even though you publish momentarily, it won't go out via Feedburner to your subscribers?
Amy- you have to save it as a draft before you change the date! If you just change the date and time then it will stay published. I do it all the time for links for reviews, so that I can email it to the PR rep or the company with the date that the review will be live. Just make sure you save as draft, then change date! You don't even have to view the post. You can click on edit post, right click on the view link, copy the link, then go ahead and click on edit and save as draft. You can really have it done before anyone knows it has been posted.
I wondered how people did this with my meme. They would tell me they linked up but when you clicked on the link it wouldn't show but the next day it would.
Doesn't it go out in the feed though and show anyway? I guess it doesn't matter if it shows on the feed early.
Do you even need to publish it the first time? Can't you just go directly to post options and schedule it that way?
Will this work? When I used Blogger once I published something, even if I went back and changed the date and time, it stayed published!! Maybe this has changed!
In WordPress I believe there is a a place at the top of the post to grab the page link on the compose page.
I use WP software hosted on our own site. When you are writing, there's a line that says "Permalink" above the writing box. You can copy the link for the post from there.
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