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Now that we have our content plan put together, we have to decide how often we’re going to run it, how many pieces of content we are going to build every day, and post to our blog. We’re going to do that on the Kanban boards for skyscraper creation. From our content agent, our set of titles that the content agent created, we’re going to go through the skyscraper content workflow in order to create skyscraper articles, which then go into the blog scheduler. The scheduler copies them to the blog. So we just have to decide how often we want to copy them to the blog. That’s what the scheduler does. A scheduler workflow runs at a particular time, which you set via the schedule here. So right now, the schedule says every day at noon, GMT minus four, which is US Eastern Time. What it’s going to do on this schedule is it’s going to take one of the articles, of the documents in this folder, selecting them in order from oldest to newest. And so it’s going to take one article and it’s going to run this schedule at that time. All the scheduler does is it moves it from the input folder to the output folder. The folder that this is running on is called the Blog Posting Scheduler, and the target folder of the scheduler is the blog itself. As soon as the document is copied into the blog’s folder, our flow automatically sends it through a set of systems to your blog, and it gets posted via XML-RPC. So that’s great.
Now, we could do things like, well, let’s do two at a time. But we don’t have to do two at a time. We could just do two different times. So if I wanted to post twice a day instead of once a day, let’s post, let’s say at 10 in the morning and two in the afternoon. Now that’s going to be every day. If we don’t want to post every day, maybe we only post every working day, we can do that. There are a bunch of other options here, which we’ll cover in a different help topic. But for right now, what we’re trying to do is figure out how often we’re going to run skyscrapers into our blog. I would normally do more than once or twice a day, depending on where I am. It’s like if I already have hundreds of blog posts, then maybe I can slow it down and only post three times a week or even twice a week. Because as you get more and more content, you can shift your focus from new content to resocializing existing content on your blog. But let’s say I want to just do two a day, and so I’ll just hit save. Anytime I want to change that, I can change that.
Now, note that this blog scheduler is already running. It was already running at noon Eastern time every day. It just wasn’t doing anything because there was no content in it. There were no items in this folder. And so that tells you two things. One, if you run out, you’ll see here on your Kanban board in Skyscraper Creation, you say, “Oh, well, I’m out of content,” which means I’m not posting to my blog. So I could either ramp up more content, or I could just realize, okay, let it wait. Maybe I’m going to budget that for later, or whatever. Just bear in mind that it’s always going to be running. It’s just, it may not be doing anything.
Now, you can also pause it. Let’s say that you have a whole bunch stacked up here, but you want to do something else with your blog, or I don’t know, whatever. You can actually pause a scheduler by just changing the item count to zero. And so the scheduler, again, will still run. It’s just, it won’t do anything because at 10 in the morning, right? Eastern time, it’s going to wake up and it’s going to do what this tells it to do, which is move zero items, starting with the oldest one first into the blog, and it’s going to do that, which will take very little time. And then it’ll go back to sleep, and it’ll do the same thing at two in the afternoon. And that’s fine. Particularly, for example, if you’ve got a whole bunch of stuff stacked up. So you did a whole bunch of content, you went crazy, and you developed 40 different blog posts ready to go, but you haven’t actually finished your blog yet. Let’s say that you want to finish styling it before you actually post anything. That’s a great idea actually. Then just go in and change your scheduler to an item count of zero. It’s now paused and you take however much time you want to take before turning it on with, you know, to actually copy that content.”
