- Short answer
- Yes: set a date and time in each post's Visibility section, on desktop or in the Shopify app; it stays hidden until then.
- Where
- Content > Blog posts, open the post, Visibility, calendar icon
- Time
- Any hour and minute; the default is the next :00 or :30
- Time zone
- Check Store defaults in General settings; Shopify's note asking for this is worded for products
- Many posts
- Bulk actions set posts visible or hidden, edit tags or delete; we found no date option
- Pages
- Same Visibility date, under Online Store > Pages
How to set a publish date on a Shopify blog post
- Content
- Blog posts
- your post
- Visibility
- In the post's Visibility section, click the calendar icon.
- Choose the date and time it should publish.
- Click Set visibility date, then Save.
The time field takes any hour and minute, such as 1:23 p.m.; the default is the next :00 or :30 point in the day. In the Shopify app, tap the calendar icon, then choose the date and time. Shopify also lets you backdate a post.
When a scheduled blog post goes live
Until the date and time you set, the post is hidden and isn't displayed on your online store. Its date and time show next to Hidden in Visibility; the pencil icon edits them, the trash icon removes them, then click Save.
Shopify's Future publishing page asks you to set Store defaults in your General settings to your time zone, “so that your products publish at the correct time.” Shopify's blog-post steps don't repeat that note, so check Store defaults before scheduling a post.
Pages, many posts at once and other limits
- Pages: a page takes the same date in its Visibility section, under Online Store > Pages.
- Products and collections: the same feature covers them; for a product, the date goes in its Publishing section.
- Many posts: select them in Content > Blog posts, and the bulk actions make them visible or hidden, add or remove tags, or delete them.
We found no date option among the bulk actions in our development store on October 14, 2026, and no calendar or queue of scheduled posts on the Future publishing, blog-post and advanced publishing pages of Shopify's Help Center, read the same day, so date each post individually.
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