WordPress.com is currently ditzing back and forth between the old and the new posting systems, so it looks like it really is time to move to Open Live Writer for blogging. One feature is a little tricky for new users to find, in this free offline blogging software. A list of your scheduled posts. Turns out you can get the list, but there’s no labelled way to it. You need to know to click once here…

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This then opens up the panel seen below, and then you drop down the list to click on your full blog name.  A full list of the last 50 posts are then speedily retrieved via RSS, and they include forward / scheduled posts in the correct order and (unlike the new WordPress) with dates that make sense when compared with the Windows taskbar Calendar.  You can then click on one of these to edit, save, change date and time etc.

It’s also useful to know that Ctrl + J loads Windows Explorer to pick a picture to upload to a blog post. The default ‘pick’ folder is Pictures.