CoSchedule Review

Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post. I pay for my own CoSchedule account, but get a discount for referrals.

After seeing numerous bloggers talking about CoSchedule, I decided to check it out.  What is CoSchedule?  It’s a blogging editorial calendar for WordPress that also schedules your social media posts.

I like blog editorial calendars.  I like being able to see my blog posts all laid out and being able to drag and drop things as I move them around.  I also like calendars because I rarely know what day it is, so it helps me make sure that Workout Wednesday posts actually post on Wednesday and not on Thursday or Tuesday because I’m confused as to the day of the week.

I’ve been using a basic calendar plugin for WordPress and it works just fine.  But when people started talking about also being able to use CoSchedule for social media, I thought I would check it out.  I like to tweet my blog posts twice a day, and I’ve been using a plugin (that I paid for), but it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.  If you follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed some annoying blank Tweets.  Thanks, plugin that will remain unnamed.

CoSchedule has fixed that problem, and the best part is that I can easily customize the tweets for my posts.  And if I write a post that I schedule for Wednesday, then want to drag and drop it to Thursday, I can do that and the Tweets go along with it.

Here’s what my calendar looked like recently:

I played around with using it to tweet my fundraising link because I realized that my Twitter hours are typically during the day and not in the evenings and a lot of my friends visit Twitter in the evenings.  So why not share the fundraising with them?

As you can see, there is one Pinterest post in red.  Unfortunately, during my trial, CoSchedule had to discontinue their Pinterest link.  There were just too many failed posts (like that one).  But they promise us that they’re working with Pinterest to fix this.  I don’t pin all of my posts, but the ability to easily pin the important ones is awesome and I hope that feature comes back soon.

I’ve been avoiding creating a Facebook page for my blog because I didn’t want to spend the time posting to it, but I think that CoSchedule may help that.  If nothing else, it’s an easy way to get my blog posts shared, and I know that a lot of people prefer to have blog posts show up in their Facebook feed, so it might be time I join this decade.

CoSchedule isn’t free.  It’s $10 a month, and what I love is that you don’t lock in.  Take the 2 week trial, and if you hate it, the end.  They don’t take your credit card info until that trial is over.  Plus you can cancel at any time.  That’s definitely key.

So far, I’m really happy with CoSchedule.  I blog because I enjoy it.  I want to put out a quality product, but I also want to enjoy doing it.  I don’t want this to become my job and I certainly don’t want it to feel like work.  Being able to easily schedule and see everything on one page has made things so much easier.

So check out CoSchedule!  If nothing else, give the 14 day trial a spin.  It costs you nothing.  And who doesn’t like free things?