Have a daily or weekly devotional that you’re written? Want to make it easy for people to read it online? RSS and Scheduled Posts are the answer!
Let’s look at setting up an RSS feed using WordPress…
Wikipedia defines RSS as “family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video in a standardized format.” Simply put, it’s a way to broadcast out your posts, so that people can subscribe to them and view them via an application like Google Reader.
Thankfully, setting up an RSS feed in WordPress is simple. Many themes (like this one for example) come with RSS feed links already built in. If not, simply create a link to “http://yourblog.wordpress.com/feed/” with the title “RSS Feed.” You can also include this graphic, the commonly recognized symbol for RSS:
Now that we’ve got our feed set up, let’s work on scheduling some content.
To set a post to display in the future, just change the post date. One the rights side of your “Write Post” window, you’ll see this box:
Click the “Edit Button” and use the fields to set the date the article should display.
That’s all there is to it!
Using this simple techinque you can load a years worth of devotionals, sermon notes, or just about anything else into a blog and have it show up right when you want to.
For examples of blogs already using this technique see the following:
Morning and Evening
Checkbook of Faith by CH Spurgeon.
