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Scheduling lets you finish a post now and have it go live later, for example next Wednesday at 9 AM. The content calendar shows everything that is scheduled and published, month by month. This guide schedules Northwind’s Huehuetenango story for Wednesday, October 28 at 9:00 AM, finds it on the calendar, and then cancels the schedule so the post stays a draft.

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Open the post

Click Marketing in the left rail, then the Content Management card. On the Posts tab, click the post.
The Posts tab with the Origin Stories Draft Huehuetenango, Guatemala: The Story Behind the Name outlined, next to a post that is Live on your site

The draft on the Posts tab

Only Site Content posts can be scheduled: they belong to your website, and scheduling publishes them there.

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Schedule it

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Click Schedule

In the Status section on the right, click Schedule. (It is also in the … menu at the top right, as Schedule….)
The Status section with the Draft badge, Send to review, Archive, and the Schedule button outlined

Schedule, under Status

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Pick the time and what happens then

In Schedule publish, pick the date and time under Publish at. Under Then, choose what your site does at that time:
  • Deploy to production when it publishes: the post goes live on your site at the scheduled time. Pick this one in most cases.
  • Deploy to staging: shown when your site has a staging environment.
  • Deploy to the dev preview: the post goes to your Development site only.
  • Do not deploy; I will deploy myself: the post is marked published at that time, but visitors only see it after your next deploy.
Click Schedule. Northwind picked Do not deploy; I will deploy myself so nothing would go live during this walkthrough.
The Schedule publish box with Publish at 10/28/2026 09:00 AM, Do not deploy; I will deploy myself selected, and the Publish at box, that choice and the Schedule button outlined

Wednesday at 9:00 AM

The post now has a Scheduled badge and says when it goes live. With Do not deploy; I will deploy myself, the line under it still says it goes live on its own: the post is marked published at that time and reaches visitors with your next deploy.
The Status section with the Scheduled badge and Goes live at Oct 28, 2026, 9:00 AM on the site's schedule, both outlined

Scheduled

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See it on the calendar

1

Open the Calendar tab

Click Calendar at the top of the page.
The Posts, Calendar, SEO plan, Authors and Tasks tabs, with Calendar outlined

The Calendar tab

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Find the post

Month shows each post on its day, with its time. The colors match the key below the calendar: Scheduled, Published, Failed and Recorded only. The key also names the time zone the times are in.
The October calendar with a published post on the 20th and the scheduled 9:00 AM Huehuetenango post on the 28th outlined, and the key Scheduled, Published, Failed and Recorded only

The post on October 28

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Switch to List

Click List to see the month as a list (or By cluster to group posts by topic).
October 2026 with Month, List and By cluster, and List outlined

The calendar views

Each row shows the time, the status, the title, the website, the page’s address, and after deploy: what deploys at that time (none means you chose to deploy yourself).
Wednesday, October 28, 2026: 9:00 AM, Scheduled, Huehuetenango, Guatemala: The Story Behind the Name, Northwind Coffee Roasters, outlined

The post in the list

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Change or cancel it

1

Open Change schedule

Open the post again and click … at the top right, then Change schedule… (or Change schedule in the Status section).
The menu next to the Scheduled badge and Publish, with Change schedule outlined

Change schedule, in the menu

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Update it, or cancel it

To move the post, pick a new time and click Update schedule. Look at Then first: it can open on Deploy to production when it publishes even when you chose something else, so pick your choice again. To stop the post from going out, click Cancel schedule.
The Schedule publish box with Currently scheduled: Goes live at Oct 28, 2026, 9:00 AM, Deploy to production selected, and the Cancel schedule button outlined

Cancel schedule

With the schedule canceled, the post is a Draft again, and the calendar no longer shows it.
The Status section with the Draft badge outlined and the Schedule button back

Back to Draft

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Good to know

  • Do not deploy means the post goes out with the next deploy anyone on your team makes after its time, not on a day you pick. Use Deploy to production when it publishes if it should be live at that time.
  • Reviews. If a teammate reviews your posts, schedule a post once it is approved, so the time you pick is the time it goes live.
  • Publish now. Publish at the top right puts a scheduled post out straight away.
  • More: Scheduling and the Content Calendar and Scheduled Publishing cover how the schedule runs.