Schedule Local Drafts to Publish Every Minute or Hour or Day
  • WhiteRabbitWhiteRabbit
    Any plans on scheduling local drafts to publish one from the queue every X minutes/hours? Have tried to use the Drafts Scheduler Plugin for WordPress, but trouble is that it queues everything in the WP drafts no ME drafts, and also does not always work very well.

    Thanks, and hope you develop something soon, would be really really great :-)

    Unless anyone has a clever way to automate this using Automator on Mac???
  • Daniel JalkutDaniel Jalkut
    Hi loyaliser - I'm not ruling out a built-in scheduling feature, but because in general the blog systems are much better equipped to handling this scheduling themselves based on "future posting" (on most blog systems, just set the date to the future when you post), it doesn't strike me as a high priority for MarsEdit.

    It sounds like you want something a bit more automated than just being able to choose a specific time in the future. I think it will be best to try to get the plugin you mentioned working. In general the server is better for this stuff because e.g. your Mac doesn't even have to be connected to the internet for it to work as expected.
  • bibendumbibendum
    Hi Daniel,

    For the moment I am evaluating the trial version and this was one of the features I didn't find instantly. It would be nice to "push" a local draft in my opninion. Sometimes I am working on the macbook and then this is no problem but from time to time I'm working on another device missing some of the drafts.
  • Daniel JalkutDaniel Jalkut
    bibendum: as long as your blogging system supports "server-side drafts" then you can achieve this by publishing the post in "Draft" format. For systems that MarsEdit supports for this kind of workflow, you'll find a "Post Status" popup in the Options panel of the post editor. If you switch it to draft and send to the blog, it will be "stored" on your blog, but not published publically.

    Then, if you are editing from another Mac with MarseEdit, you can "Refresh" the blog on that computer to bring it up to date with the latest posts on the server, including any that are in draft status.

    Daniel
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