How to link to Scheduled posts in WordPress

Date August 9, 2007

Yesterday I showed you an Easy way to Schedule a future post in WordPress, and although I’m sure that you are busily creating posts for the next 4 years, I thought I would share this with you.

The problem I have with future posts is that I want to link to them in other future posts. This is especially helpful if you are writing a series of posts and want to point your readers to the first post in the series.

Well, I figured out that doing this is almost as easy as automatically posting in the future is.

Step 1: In another browser window or tab, go into your WordPress site Administration, and click on Manage.

Step 2: Click on the “view” option next to the post you want to link to.

Step 3: Copy the URL.

Didn’t I say that it was simple?

One warning though, if you are using the “Date and Name based” option for your URLs, and you change the date of the post, then the link will be broken.

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    3 Responses to “How to link to Scheduled posts in WordPress”

    1. Port 16 » Blog Archive » Easy way to Schedule a future post in WordPress said:

      August 9th, 2007 at 5:20 am

      [...] the next tip is how to link to WordPress blog posts that are scheduled to be published.     Read [...]

    2. Mario Monk said:

      January 28th, 2012 at 11:55 am

      Hello, do you know if there’s a trick, or plugin or somth, that would allow to link to a scheduled post from existing one?

      That is, can I edit existing post, so I can have a link to scheduled post, but the link is not showing until the scheduled post is published?

      Thanks.

    3. Mike Scott said:

      January 28th, 2012 at 4:12 pm

      Sorry Mario, I don’t know of one.