March 13, 2008
Using the “Post Timestamp” feature
Filed under: Feature, How-To -- Christopher Finke @ 12:00pmA new feature in ScribeFire 1.4.7 for users of Firefox 3 is the ability to set an arbitrary publishing date on your posts. (Note: Blogger does not support this feature.)
To use this feature, simply write your post as you normally would:
And then open the “Options” panel of the right sidebar and change the date and time under “Edit Timestamp” to the time when you want your post to become public:
Then, just publish your post as usual. That’s all there is to it!
March 13th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Thank you for ScribeFire updated and thanks for this feature. But why this feature is for Firefox 3 only at this time? Do you have plans to update it for Firefox 2? Feels like you favoring v. 3 over v.2
Having said that, I commend you for working out there several steps ahead of today. It is wise to get stable, feature rich release of ScribeFire simultaneously with official stable release of Firefox 3. Good job overall!
March 16th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Sergei: The widgets for selecting dates and times only exist in Firefox 3; that is why it is not supported in Firefox 2.
March 17th, 2008 at 9:42 am
I am using 1.4.7 and Firefox 3 Beta 4. My default date is formatted dd-mmm-yy. In ScribeFire it displays 16-Oct-03 2008 (the 8 is hidden in the display). somehow it formats the month as 03, but where it gets October I have no idea.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
awesome you guys just keep updating this so good…
March 17th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Whoa, this add-on is awesome and its something I’ve been dreaming for! I just discovered it today because it was a recommended add-on from firefox, and its just amazing
The blogging tool you guys have made is amazing, I would give it a 10/10 because of its usefulness, features, specs, optimization, and everything!
Especially the fact you guys keep updating, I’m going to keep up to date on this add-on from now on
Great Job guys, will be using for my wordpress blog now.
March 19th, 2008 at 3:01 am
Nice feature – but it appears to “stick” for want of a better word. I noticed this when I made a post using Scribefire this morning. I didn’t notice the timestamp at the time – just when I went to my site and found a new post I made this morning had the same timestamp as the last one I made with Scribefire.
Firefox 3 Beta 4, Mac OS X 10.5, if that helps.
March 19th, 2008 at 6:52 am
The blogging tool you guys have made is amazing, I would give it a 10/10 because of its usefulness, features, specs, optimization, and everything!
Especially the fact you guys keep updating, I’m going to keep up to date on this add-on from now on
Great Job guys, will be using for my wordpress blog now.
March 21st, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Mine stuck too. I am running
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008020509 Firefox/3.0b3pre
on a Ubuntu 7.10 AMD-64
March 22nd, 2008 at 11:31 am
I have been using this cool app!
Would be looking for this update!
It would be superb if we could specify the publish date!
http://pluking.blogspot.com/
Venkat
March 23rd, 2008 at 8:17 am
there is a bug with this feature and worpdress, the post never shown as published.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
hi,
im using firefox 3 and textpattern and my posts are all the same date, if i dont edit the timestamp by hand. can i disable this feature?
March 26th, 2008 at 12:19 am
I am running Fedora 5, and for some reason my timestamp will not change on one of my blogs.
March 26th, 2008 at 2:38 am
I think Blogger in Draft has added this support.
March 26th, 2008 at 11:10 am
I have tried over and over to use this feature on my blogger blogs.
And it never worked. The post (with the timestamp) shows immediately.
Could I be doing something wrong?
March 26th, 2008 at 11:19 am
ok… i’m embareced. my mistake. it doesn’t work on blogger, i just read.
hope some day it will, since blogger seems to be the only main platform that does not integrate this feature.
March 26th, 2008 at 11:26 am
well… I just tryed using this feature on a wrodpress blog, and the same, all over again.
It does not work. The post shows rigth after I press publish and visit the blog, not on the time I chose.
March 27th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
I had a similar problem as #6 and #8–I used the new version twice today and both times it edited the timestap as earlier in the day without me telling it to do so. Both times I momentarily thought I had lost the posts until I figured out they had been posted as being written earlier.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:16 pm
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May 25th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Does this feature now work for Blogger, since Blogger now allows you to schedule posts? http://buzz.blogger.com/2008/05/blogger-now-schedules-future-dated.html
March 7th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
I have a problem with the Post Timestamp utlity. Once used to a post the Time is staying the same even when you make changes (update) on the post. On other posts where the timestamp was not used the day and time of the post are changed on every save. This appear also in the Sitemap. I think this is important and I am wondering how to change the date on the post with timestamp originaly.
April 8th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Hello ScribeFire! I just learned of your Blog writing Tool from a Post on ActiveRain from ActiveBrad’s Blog and this seems like a great internet tool and I will be referring many other people to you. Thanks!