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Planning For the Unexpected - Emergencies With Online Businesses and Blogs

What about my blog or online business?

With blogs and website you do not have to have everything published right away. With WordPress and other blogs you can easily write several posts and leave them in draft mode. As long as they are in draft mode they will not publish, but you can have the posts ready for an emergency. With the posts written and prepared it does not take long to make them work for you.

How can you plan for the unexpected?

Some emergencies do happen completely unplanned. Right now, I am planning for my grandmother's passing. Unfortunately this means at least a week away from my blogs. So I am writing many posts to cover my planned absence with extra in case things change and writing posts to keep current. The posts I am putting in reserve are not time related so it will be okay when they publish.

What about unplanned emergencies?

Because life is full of unplanned things, writing a few extra posts to keep in reserve is a good pattern. You can use the business practice of FIFO, first in, first out, to keep your posts up-to-date while still keeping a few posts in reserve. You could also write posts that will be basically timeless so when they get used will not matter.

What do I need to do when the unexpected happens?

When your expected or unexpected emergency happens you can feel confident knowing you have posts and information ready to go. Rather than trying to rush out an update, you can make some minor changes to a post to update your readers. You can then go through your drafts and schedule them for your standard post interval, be that a post every few days or once a week.

How do I schedule updates and posts?

Fortunately with WordPress blogs you can schedule posts. Instead of selecting publish go a little to the left and change the date and time. Then select publish, it will change to scheduled so the posts will automatically go. While you can not set up "weekly" you can look at the calendar to set it up for the next date. If all your posts are already written there is no need to go back into them, just click posts, edit posts, and under the post title use quick edit to change the date. This will allow you to change the date on a posts in a few minutes and set up several posts to go on your regular schedule.

While the unexpected can add stress on your life, with a little planning your websites can be prepared.

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