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Use the content calendar

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In the site admin, open Calendar to review content by date and plan your publishing work. Use Remove schedule to cancel a queued publication when your role permits it.

Checked against the product’s code on 7 November 2026.

Calendar is EmDash’s view of published and scheduled content across collections, such as posts and other content types. It uses the site’s saved time zone. A scheduled entry is a plan to publish, not a delivery confirmation.

  1. Open Calendar.
  2. Choose Month for the grid or Agenda for a list.
  3. Move to the previous or next month, or choose Today.
  4. Open Filter if you need a narrower view.
  5. Choose the collection, language and region, or state to include.
  6. Open an entry to inspect its details.

The entry panel shows its state, due time, language and region where applicable, bylines and last edit. It can distinguish a live version from scheduled changes. Open in editor, Preview or Preview changes, and View live lead to different versions of the content.

Open the entry’s details before choosing a schedule action.

  • When your role permits it, Reschedule chooses another time.
  • Remove schedule removes the future publication.

For an already published entry, its scheduled edits remain a draft; removing the schedule does not take its existing live version offline.

An overdue entry can offer Publish now. This is your explicit publication action. A copilot request to schedule or publish always pauses for approval.

For pages and posts, the publish check runs before scheduling and again when publication is due. A refusal clears the schedule; a check that cannot finish leaves publication waiting for another check. Read the scheduling steps and outcomes before rescheduling.

Read errors and overdue warnings before assuming content went live. A range with more entries than the calendar can show reports that limit; filter the view before relying on its displayed inventory.