Time Release Plugin from PiePalace.ca

The Time Release Plugin from Pie Palace is another brilliant piece of work from Erigami Scholey-Fuller, whose other plugins include

• MiniPosts and
• Irrepressible Fragment (about which I hope to be posting shortly)
• BiblioPress

It’s also worth mentioning that the PiePalace blog is worth reading for its own sake – recent coverage of Canada’s national discussion/debate on torture has been quite informative. But – onto Time Release. If you’re not able to post daily – but are occasionally able to write more than one post – you can check “queue for Time Release” in this box, which will appear in your post editing window:

We’ll assume for present purposes that you’ve set Time Release to release a post every day from the queue. If you post on Monday, Time Release does nothing. If, on Tuesday, you fail to post, Time Release will publish the first post in the queue, using as zero-hour the time of day at which it was installed. That is – if you want a new post every day at 8:00 A.M., make sure your WordPress installation knows the correct local time ( that’s in Settings | General in WP 2.9.1), and install the plugin at that time of day. The publication day will be the day it’s actually posted.

Time Release will let you appear more organized and consistent – but (current version, at least) doesn’t let you specify more than one post per day. Still, if you’re busy, this can keep your blog rolling more smoothly. While I’d like more control, I think I’d like – even more – to set the “put in queue” box checked as default, so every post after the first one each day gets queued. I do tend to post in clusters – so that would even things out. However, it’s easy to drag-and-drop the checkbox to the upper-right-hand portion of the screen, so it’s harder to miss or forget.

Time Release – downloadable at the WordPress Plugin Repository.