How to schedule posts in Wagtail

No one wants to get up early or stay up late just to publish a blog post. The scheduling feature in Wagtail is a great tool for scheduling content to go live at a time that works well for you and your audience. In this video, Meagen will show you how to schedule content in Wagtail so you won't have to work at weird hours just to publish your posts.

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Learn more about the scheduling feature here: https://guide.wagtail.org/en-latest/concepts/scheduled-publishing/

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What will I learn from this video?

You will learn how to schedule content using Wagtail's built-in scheduling feature. You can set a time for content to go live as well as set a time for content to expire too. This feature can be used for pages and blog posts and even for some other types of content (like Snippets) within Wagtail.

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