Is blogger running behind the age or what? They have made the scheduled posts feature available for bloggers couple of days back which is available in Wordpress since ages. I don’t mean to undermine blogger software here but I think it could have been brought up in market much earlier, don’t you think so? Anyways, late than never! I think that’s why I moved from blogger to wordpress for this blog after comparison of wordpress with blogger.

So what’s benefit of scheduled posts for you as blogger?

Let’s say you are going on vacation and away from computer, and you fear that your readers would feel alone and miss you - you can still be in touch with them through scheduled posts in blogger.

You would like to announce something on certain date, you can do that staying away from the computer.

You are at home but busy with so much of stuff to do at home, and if you still stick to computer, your spouse yells at you calling you irresponsible towards your duties as husband or wife - better write a lot when you get a chance and schedule the posts

How to schedule post in blogger?

Scheduling a post is easy to do: on the post editor page, click the “Post Options” toggle to show the “Post date and time” fields. Then, type a post date and time that’s in the future. When you click the “Publish” button, your post will become “scheduled.” When the date and time of the post arrive, it will be automatically published to your blog.

Everything cannot be perfect, there is a catch

Once you publish the post, you cannot reschedule the published posts. They would appear on your blog with future date and at top of all the posts. If you want to schedule a post, be very sure that you never ever publish it even by mistake. As blogger says -

If you want to give a post a date in the future but have it appear on your blog now, you’ll need to add in an extra step. First, publish your post with the current date and time. This will make it appear on your blog. Then, edit the post to change the date into the future and publish it again.

Why someone every would like to do it unless he wants to keep a post almost always on top of all the post like a sticky. Better add a “sticky” post feature, right! I might like to have my post in past show like a sticky at the top of the blog, rather than giving it a future date and appear as sticky.

I really like to know your opinion on this, what would you prefer a sticky like post that is with future date or actual sticky feature implementation.