Getting Started Guide

Step 1:

Sign Up on the PostLater.com system.

Step 2:

Log in to your account.

Step 3:

In your backoffice, register the sites where you want to publish posts. You can register as many sites as you like.

Normally, the most you need to supply is the URL of the site, and your login user name and password. We need the user name and password so that the system can publish posts on your behalf.

The Post Later system will then auto-discover the interface that your site uses for remote publishing. Only in rare cases, where auto-discovery isn't possible, will you be asked to supply the interface information.

If you want to schedule posts for different authors on the same site, you simply register the site more than once, and supply the desired author's login credentials with each entry. A post is published on your site under the name of the user that the Post Later system used to log on during remote publishing.

Step 4:

Enter and schedule the posts that you want published at a future date and time. You schedule posts in your local time zone, even though your server might be in a different time zone. You can change your time zone settings as often as you like, which is very convenient when you're traveling.

There's no limit to the number of posts that you can schedule.

If your blogging platform supports category retrieval, the Post Later system allows you to pick the blog categories under which you want a post to be published.

When the publishing time rolls by, the Post Later system will publish the post to your site. If the post fails, the system will immediately send you an email. It will also highlight the post in your backoffice, and provide you with a reason for failure. Most often it's because the login failed, which could happen if you changed your password on the site but didn't change it here in your backoffice as well. Sometimes your server could be down, or the Internet could be ill. You can then fix the error and reschedule the post.

If the post was published successfully, it's removed from the Post Later system. We don't keep a history of your published posts.

Step 5:

With your posts written and scheduled, you can go out and relax or do the things you'd rather be doing instead of worrying about writing and publishing when it's inconvenient to do so.

We all experience bursts of energy and inspiration. With Post Later, you can maximize those periods by writing as much as you can, and then drip-feeding the content into your blog.

Try It Out:

Try it out for a month. If you feel it's not working for you, you can cancel at any time. However, we're convinced you'll love the convenience.

Your Pings Go Out When The Post Is Actually Published

Blogging platforms -- WordPress in particular -- ping the RSS services the moment when you click Publish, even though your post won't go live until much later. That means, when the pinged services come looking for new content, there is nothing yet.

Because we publish a post to your blog at the date and time you want, the RSS services are pinged at that point in time, i.e., when the post is live on your blog.