One of the great features of Windows Live Writer that I love is that I can work on a couple of different posts in varying stages without having to be connected to the Internet at all.
This lets me get my ideas down and ready for more intense writing later, or even let’s me insert and prepare all my images into the post. I can then save the drafts of my posts in the interface (or even into my WordPress dashboard if I would prefer) to open later and finish.
What I can’t do, that seems kind of obvious though, is to publish a post, even when I’m disconnected and save it as a draft. Then, when Windows Live Writer notices an active Internet connection again, it can go ahead and publish those posts immediately up to the server without me having to do anything at all.
With Windows Live Writer I can also schedule posts to be published days after I actually “Publish” them to the site using the post date and time.
I realize there’s a little bit of an overlap in features and functionality here, but having some sort of auto-publish when online again would be a great new feature in my opinion.
Set Post Date in Windows Live Writer
UPDATE: From the request in the comments from Trident, I’m finally getting back to using the screen shot I grabbed months ago to illustrate how to delay publish your posts. In the Windows Live Writer interface there’s a section in the toolbar that looks like the image to the right.
This control allows you to schedule a post to publish on a specific date and at a specific time if desired. This allows you to write some content for your blog all at once and then trickle it out to your readers over the course of a few days or weeks.
Trident, I hope that answers your question. Let me know if you have any additional questions I can help you with in the future.
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Hi there
Noticed you mentioned above about scheduling delaying posts via Writer. Please how do you accomplish that?