Dreamwidth is a bit limited on features, including no built-in way to schedule posts. But there’s a pretty easy work around! That work around involves posting via email.
First you have to set up your Mobile Post Settings, which involves telling it what email addresses to allow and setting a pin. Dreamwidth can then post as you using a special email address, including posting to your communities.
You can tell this was set up a long time ago because it has allowances for free email services that put garbage at the end of the email address and cellphones without full keyboard options. (I’m sure both of those are still around, but they’re much rarer these days).
You can even set journal options like what icons to use, tags, and comments.
So here’s some examples:
To: silvercat17+XXXX@post.dreamwidth.org
From: me@gmail.com
Subject: Scheduled posting
And then write what you want to postXXXX there is the pin. There are various places you can put it, but I find the in the email address to be the easiest.
To: silvercat17.communityname+XXXX@post.dreamwidth.org
From: me@silvercat17
Subject: What! I can post to communities too?
Yep, any community you have permission to post to, you can post by email.Obviously, you replace “communityname” with the actual name of the community.
To: silvercat17+XXXX@post.dreamwidth.org
From: me@gmail.com
Subject: Scheduled posting Options!
post-icon: cat silhouette
post-tags: Dreamwidth, cats, whatever
There are bunch of options on Dreamwidth that I never use, like location and music, but you can do those too.
This would make it post with a specific icon (the one next to this) and the tags “Dreamwidth, cats, whatever”
The next part of this is scheduling an email, which is going to depend entirely on your email service. I use gmail and it’s as simple as writing an email and then clicking on the down arrow next to “send” to pull up “scheduled send”.
And that’s how you schedule a post for Dreamwidth.
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