Use an Editorial Calendar

This is not a paid advertisement or affiliate marketing. I just think this product is really useful.

My friends at STRESSLIMIT have built a really nifty plugin for WordPress called the editorial calendar. It works exceptionally well at a very simple, but useful task. It helps you plan out your content with a very useful drag and drop interface. I checked it out a day or two ago and am already using the heck out of it.

It’s free. You should get it and start using it right away. Here are the features:

Features

See all of your posts and when they’ll be posted.
Drag and drop to change your post dates.
Quickedit post titles, contents, and times.
Publish posts or manage drafts.
Easily see the status of your posts.
Manage posts from multiple authors.

Kind of a no-brainer, right? Here’s the awesome video walkthrough from Zack Grossbart:

The WordPress Editorial Calendar Screen Cast from Zack Grossbart on Vimeo.

I’m using the editorial calendar and you should give it a go. Oh, and I used it to put this post out the day after I wrote it in the afternoon, because I had a slot open for my afternoon content.

To reiterate, I’m not paid or otherwise being compensated to talk about this product. The guys at STRESSLIMIT designed my logo for me, but beyond that, I have no business arrangements with them. They’re just awesome people.

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http://www.miss-britt.com Miss Britt

“To reiterate, I’m not paid or otherwise being compensated to talk about this product. The guys at STRESSLIMIT designed my logo for me, but beyond that, I have no business arrangements with them. They’re just awesome people.”

And you? Are awesome people for sharing stuff just because you think it will help other people.
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Wow! Amazing functionality for el free-o! Love it. Thx for getting the word out, Chris.
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Michelle Feeney

Thanks for posting this Chris! It’s installed and I’m getting ready to use it now. This will really help out!!
http://twitter.com/AlBoxallGordon Al Boxall Gordon

Thanks for the pointer Chris. I had wondered how you get so organised with your posts and getting them out when you are on holiday etc. I forgot to ask. Great mind reading.
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http://www.consciousdivas.com Kate Muker

Fantastic!! I manage a multi-author blog and this is going to make my life so much easier. I just installed it and love it!!
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Chris, as always: you are just too helpful. I’ll try that out on my blog. I was acutally thinking about such a plugin a few weeks ago. And now you found it for me.
http://www.modernekklesia.com Rodlie Ortiz

Just installed it and love it! I searched through all your past tweets in the last few days cause I remember reading about it somewhere…..and then I found it. Seems pretty sweet!
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Anonymous

Score one for the Luddite–I actually have this plugin installed :)

Thanks for the reminder to use it Chris!
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Installed the plugin and it’s a major timesaver! Love being able to see snapshots of everything. Thanks for promoting this, Chris!
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http://twitter.com/justcharlie charlie

This is an incredible plugin! Extremely useful.
http://www.jgen.ws/jlog JL

Good for scheduling, but the Quick Edit option does not save my changes.
http://www.bybloggers.net Jonathan Wondrusch

Thanks for the tip Chris! For anyone publishing various types of content on a schedule and using custom post types to do so in WP 3.0+, you can edit one line in the plugin and have them added to the editorial calendar.

Line 485 of the edcal.php file in the plugin folder:

‘post_type’ => ‘post’,

becomes:

‘post_type’ => array(‘post’, ‘your-post-type-1′, ‘your-post-type-2′),

And you’re all ready to get going :) I haven’t had any problems on my site as I’ve been using this “hack” to get the functionality I wanted. Enjoy!
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Another useful tip.
Anonymous

Definitely looks like something worth trying out, but just wondering, is there any way to sync this with Google Calendar or Outlook? A great calendar on WordPress is swell, but if I forget to look at the specific WordPress dash, it doesn’t do me much good.
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This plugin literally saves my life. I am using it from day 1. Extremely useful :)
http://www.snagabargain.com Maggie @ Snag A Bargain

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!
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Great post.
I’m gonna print this out and stick on my room
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Matt Horwitz

Hey Chris, do you log in and look at the calendar daily, or is there a way to receive email notifications on anything ?

Thanks!
Matt

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