How Date-Based Scheduling Works Without a Database
The simplest blog scheduling approach stores all posts as HTML files in a blog folder and their metadata (slug, title, date) in a posts array in your frontend code. Every time the blog index loads, a date comparison function checks each post's publish date against today's date. If today is on or after the publish date, the post is live. If not, it shows as Coming Soon or is hidden entirely.
Why this approach works: you upload all your posts at once -- a batch of 30 or 100 -- and they go live automatically on schedule without any manual publishing. Set it up once. Every day, the right posts go live without you touching anything.
The Scheduling Implementation
Ask Claude: "Add automatic date-based scheduling to my blog system. Each post in the posts array should have a publishDate field in YYYY-MM-DD format. Add a function called isPublished(date) that returns true if today's date is on or after the publish date. On the blog index page, show published posts normally and show future posts as 'Coming Soon' with the scheduled date. On individual blog post routes, if the post is not yet published, redirect to the blog index with a 404."
Loading 30 Posts at Once
When you upload a batch of 30 posts, add all 30 to the posts array at once with their scheduled dates. The system handles the rest automatically. This is how the BWAI blog system works -- posts are uploaded in batches and go live on their scheduled date without any manual intervention.