Scheduling Articles

Scheduling lets you plan your content calendar ahead of time. You set a publish date on an article — or let an AI Content Plan or Series lay out a whole calendar for you — and RankTurn handles the rest: generating the content in time and delivering it to your connected platforms on the date you chose.

Scheduled articles appear on the Scheduled page in a calendar-style view, where you can see upcoming dates, adjust them, and check generation and publishing status at a glance.

Setting a Publish Date

There are two ways an article ends up with a publish date.

Per article

If you already have a draft (or a published article you want to re-deliver), schedule it directly:

1. Open the article, or use the publish action from the article list.
2. Choose a publish date and time in the future.
3. Select the platform(s) to publish to.

The article is marked Scheduled for each platform you picked. On the scheduled date, RankTurn delivers it automatically.

You can schedule an article that is a Draft or already Published (to re-deliver it). An article that is still being written can't be scheduled until it finishes. The date must be in the future, and each platform you choose must already be connected under Integrations.

Via Content Plans and Series

For a hands-off approach, let RankTurn build the calendar:

• An AI Content Plan maps out roughly a month of articles, each with its own publish date, and schedules them all at once.
• A Series keeps a queue of topics and turns them into numbered issues on a recurring cadence. Series is available on the Pro plan.

With these, each article is created as Scheduled with no content yet, and RankTurn writes it automatically a few days before its publish date (see below). The publishing cadence depends on your plan:

What happens to a scheduled article

A scheduled article moves through a clear sequence of stages. Knowing them helps you read the Scheduled page at a glance.

Scheduled → Writing → Ready to publish → Published

1. Scheduled (no content yet) — The article has a publish date but hasn't been written. This is how articles created by a Content Plan or Series start. About 3 days before the publish date, RankTurn picks it up and begins writing.
2. Writing — The content is being generated. The article can't be rescheduled or unscheduled while it's being written.
3. Ready to publish — Writing has finished and the article is queued to go live. Articles you scheduled yourself reach this stage right away (their content already exists). Articles from plans and series reach it once writing completes — as long as auto-publish is on. If auto-publish is off, the finished article goes back to Draft for your review instead.
4. Published — On (or just after) the publish date, RankTurn marks the article Published and delivers it to your connected platforms.

RankTurn checks for due articles about once an hour, so delivery happens within the hour after your scheduled time rather than to the exact minute.

Tracking delivery to each platform

RankTurn tracks delivery to each platform separately. There is one delivery for each article and platform — if you schedule the same article to WordPress and Webflow, that's two deliveries to track. Re-scheduling or re-publishing reuses the existing one rather than piling up duplicates.

Each delivery has its own status:

A failed delivery can be retried up to 3 times. If the failure is caused by a sign-in problem (for example an expired connection), RankTurn also emails you an alert so you can reconnect the platform under Integrations.

Selecting Platforms

When you schedule an article, you choose which connected platforms it publishes to. A platform must be connected and active before it can be selected — if it isn't, scheduling is blocked with a prompt to set it up in Integrations first.

For articles scheduled through a Content Plan or Series, the platform list comes from the plan or series configuration, so every article in that calendar publishes to the same destinations without per-article setup.

Each platform publishes using its default publishing settings, so scheduled and automatic publishes carry the same tags, author, category, canonical URL, and images as a manual publish.

Unscheduling & Rescheduling

You stay in control of the calendar after scheduling.

• Reschedule — Change the publish date to another future date. You can do this while an article is Draft, Scheduled, or Ready to publish. Articles that are Published or currently being written can't be rescheduled. Rescheduling moves both the planned delivery and the article's publish date together.
• Unschedule — Remove the publish date entirely. The article goes back to Draft, so it won't be written or published until you schedule it again.
• Cancel a delivery — Cancel a single platform's delivery while it's still Pending (or Failed). This stops delivery to that one platform without touching the others.

Timezones

Publish times use the local clock time of your account's timezone. Set it once in your business profile, and it applies to all your scheduling. If your timezone is Asia/Tokyo and you schedule an article for 9:00 AM, it publishes at 9:00 AM Tokyo time no matter where you or your team happen to be.

Because RankTurn checks for due articles about once an hour, treat the scheduled time as "no earlier than" rather than to-the-minute precision — an article scheduled for 9:00 typically goes out within the hour that follows.