scheduled reblogging?
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I’m trying to figure out how to schedule a reblog to post on my blog at some time in the future, so I don’t end up posting 15 things in one day. I already know how to change a posted blog’s date, but that doesn’t stop my subscribers from getting an email notice about a blog that no longer exists (until the scheduled time it posts).
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Hi there!
This is a really good idea and makes total sense, but, there doesn’t see to be a way to do this yet:
As far as I’m aware, there isn’t a way to schedule a reblog, short of posting and then immediately editing that post in your dashboard to change the publish date/time.
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scheduling-a-reblog?replies=4
You may want to post it over at the ideas section:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/ideasSorry I couldn’t be more help. :(
Kind regards,
JasonPS love the site title! Mr. Spock does rock!
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Thanks Jason! I sort of expected that would be the case, so I’ll follow your advice and post it to the ideas forum.
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I would also be interested in this. When I write for a group blog, I want the post to automatically go up on my blog at the same time. I can’t always access my desktop, and many admin tasks seem difficult or impossible on the smart phone.
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@pegoleg – just to clarify, this discussion is on scheduling a reblog. https://en.support.wordpress.com/reblogs/#how-does-reblogging-work
You already have the power to schedule your own draft posts to publish at a time you determine. Here’s more on that: https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/schedule-a-post/
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You can hand craft the equivalent of a Reblog and that can be scheduled since it is a new Post – you would copy a few words etc to your Post – don’t get carried away with the copy stuff and make sure there is a link to the original Post – you can make it look almost like a Reblog and it will do the same thing – the Reblog is just a one button lazy automatic way of doing the same thing
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Thanks for the speedy response. justjennifer – yes, I know. That’s what I want to do.
auxclass, do you mean type the first paragraph or so of the post, and embed a link to the site where the original post is going up? Then I can schedule it and still drive traffic to the other site. Sounds like a plan, thanks!
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@auxclass – there is one thing about reblogging that your manually crafted fake won’t do – produce a comment on the original blog telling the author that you reblogged their work. Oh, I know – you’re going to say something about leaving a comment myself – guess what? Even disabled people who don’t work don’t have all day to sit around just manually doing things that could be automated very easily by the site.
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Depending on where your content is coming from, a Pingback may be generated that tells the original owner that someone has linked to their content – since WordPress.COM sends a Pingback to the site you are linking to, not all sites are set up to accept the Pingback
@vernonp – yes it could be automated, but currently it is not – and that is why I gave you a workaround – use it if you want – makes not much difference to me
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@vernonp – Since reblogging as described in the Support doc I linked to above is a feature exclusive to WordPress.com and, as @auxclass says, any link created from one WordPress.com site to another WordPress.com site creates an automatic pingback which will show as a comment on the original WordPress.com site (unless the original site owner being “reblogged” has turned off pingbacks), I don’t see where @auxclass’ suggestion won’t work or is “too much work”.
You can even handcraft your manually created “reblog” to follow the same general format as the automatically generated one, including a link to “View Original” which would create the pingback.
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@justjennifer – my suggestion works just fine – I have used it several times – also the Reblog does not always give you a usable Post – depends on how the target site / Post is put together – I have had the Reblog fail miserably
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Not to mention that if the original blogger decides later to turn off reblogging on their site, *poof* goes the content of the official reblog and only the comment is left on the reblogger’s site.
So that makes your workaround better than the official reblog. :)
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If I didn’t know any different, I’d be convinced that auxclass and justjennifer are the coders who would be tasked with doing the job, and they just want to convince the rest of us that they shouldn’t have to do any work.
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Actually @justjennifer & I don’t work for WordPress.COM and don’t do coding here, so we are not the people that would be tasked with adding a scheduled feature
I was in another life a Designer & Programmer for large industrial systems, but it was a completely different language and on some systems if I made a mistake things went boom and sent shrapnel a long long ways, and cleaned up after people that got the design wrong and did send shrapnel flying
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@vernonp – Nope, we’re not employees of Automattic. We’re experienced fellow users of the WordPress.com website who tried to suggest a solution to the question you had.
Since you’ve already posted your request for scheduled reblogging in the Ideas forum, then that’s the end of the discussion here as far as I’m concerned.
For the future, if you want assistance from other community members, please keep this in mind . If you want assistance from Staff, you can add the MODLOOK tag to the Tags section of your forum thread.
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