If you are a lazy blogger, or simply don’t have time each day to write a full post, this handy little tip may help to at least keep your blog looking fresh with new content every day.
You need a del.icio.us account first. Once you have your account, as you visit other blogs bookmark their posts that you find interesting each day. Once you have set up your auto post below, del.icio.us will create a post on blog from each days saved bookmarks.
These instructions are from theory.isthereason – he has a full post on other options on his blog:
- Sign up or Login to your del.icio.us account
- Start bookmarking and tagging favorite web pages.
- In del.icio.us, click Settings and look under Blogging, then click on the link that says “daily blog posting”
- Click “add a new thingy” and some obscure form appears
- Enter the following into the form, and enter your relevant details in the [boxes]
job_name : WordPress Daily Post (or any title you want)
out_name : [Your WordPress Username]
out_pass : [Your WordPress Password]
out_url : http://[Your Blog URL]/xmlrpc.php
out_time : 4 (the GMT that you want the post to happen. 0 = 8pm EST)
out_blog_id : 1 (might not matter to WordPress)
out_cat_id : 1 (Regardless, it’ll probably post to the default WordPress category) - Hit “Submit Query” and you’re done!
- Simply wait for the magical moment when you links magically appear on your blog!
All very simple and straight forward. Now if you find you are running out time to write a post, visit a few of your favorites and add their post to del.icio.us and you will have created a new post.
I don’t recommend you do it every day, however it could make a nice weekend roundup of what you have been reading and found interesting and would like to pass on to your readers. Make sure it provides some value to them and they will be appreciative.
You will notice that all the top bloggers – or ‘A’ listers – use a weekly – and sometimes daily – roundup of their favorite pages – you can too now.
