WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Scheduled Posts not working http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scheduled-posts-not-working WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Scheduled Posts not working en Thu, 23 May 2013 09:38:44 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 raincoaster on "Scheduled Posts not working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scheduled-posts-not-working#post-612971 Thu, 26 May 2011 21:35:58 +0000 raincoaster 612971@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Very, very interesting information.

]]> justjennifer on "Scheduled Posts not working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scheduled-posts-not-working#post-612923 Thu, 26 May 2011 21:04:49 +0000 justjennifer 612923@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Guess I need to go write an ode to my readers. :)

Thanks for the explanations and sorry osmith215 for co-opting your thread.

]]> macmanx on "Scheduled Posts not working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scheduled-posts-not-working#post-612920 Thu, 26 May 2011 21:00:23 +0000 macmanx 612920@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That would be same problem as subscriptions. The post needs to publish before it's publicized, and a scheduled post needs an action trigger to publish.

Most scheduled post blogs tend to have a multitude of visitors, so in most cases it's not long before someone triggers the post, and we have found that to be the most consistent and reliable method.

This limitation is also part of the core WordPress software.

]]> justjennifer on "Scheduled Posts not working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scheduled-posts-not-working#post-612918 Thu, 26 May 2011 20:56:34 +0000 justjennifer 612918@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hm...would "publicize" also act as a action trigger to publish the post at the correct time or only an actual visit?

]]> macmanx on "Scheduled Posts not working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scheduled-posts-not-working#post-612910 Thu, 26 May 2011 20:50:01 +0000 macmanx 612910@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ justjennifer, that's correct. The only way to publish a post on schedule without an action trigger (like a visit) would be to run an active cron job on all 19 million blogs every minute, which would translate into either constantly crashing servers or no more free blogs.

]]> osmith215 on "Scheduled Posts not working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scheduled-posts-not-working#post-612863 Thu, 26 May 2011 19:46:58 +0000 osmith215 612863@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The post finally went up more than an hour after it was scheduled to

]]> justjennifer on "Scheduled Posts not working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scheduled-posts-not-working#post-612857 Thu, 26 May 2011 19:38:33 +0000 justjennifer 612857@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That was certainly an enlightening revelation. I learn something new every day.

@macmanx-What happens to any email or the RSS feed? Are they only then pushed out to subscribers as well?

]]> macmanx on "Scheduled Posts not working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scheduled-posts-not-working#post-612806 Thu, 26 May 2011 18:46:20 +0000 macmanx 612806@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ In that case, please contact us via http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ and file a private request (if the option presents itself) so we can dig deeper.

]]> osmith215 on "Scheduled Posts not working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scheduled-posts-not-working#post-612791 Thu, 26 May 2011 18:39:18 +0000 osmith215 612791@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I've had people go to the site from other computers just to check it's nothing to do with my PC, but none of them can see the new post and it's still showing as "Scheduled" on the dashboard

]]> osmith215 on "Scheduled Posts not working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scheduled-posts-not-working#post-612769 Thu, 26 May 2011 18:21:11 +0000 osmith215 612769@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I was just about to post something when you responded last time so instead of posting it immediatley I scheduled it to be posted half an hour later. I logged out and went back to check after the scheduled post time and it wasn't displaying the post.

]]> macmanx on "Scheduled Posts not working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scheduled-posts-not-working#post-612740 Thu, 26 May 2011 17:45:05 +0000 macmanx 612740@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hm, that is interesting.

The next time that happens, can you try visiting the blog while logged out first?

]]> osmith215 on "Scheduled Posts not working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scheduled-posts-not-working#post-612737 Thu, 26 May 2011 17:42:56 +0000 osmith215 612737@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That's interesting because in order to get to the dashboard of wordpress I was going in through the blog (i.e. first visiting the main page of the blog) and the posts were missing.

]]> macmanx on "Scheduled Posts not working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scheduled-posts-not-working#post-612735 Thu, 26 May 2011 17:40:51 +0000 macmanx 612735@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Scheduled posts don't actually appear until someone visits the blog after the scheduled time of publication.

So, if you schedule a post at 9am, it won't publish until 9:15am if there are no visitors between 9am and 9:15am.

Basically, the post is published upon visit and back-dated to the schedule time.

]]> osmith215 on "Scheduled Posts not working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scheduled-posts-not-working#post-612650 Thu, 26 May 2011 16:18:32 +0000 osmith215 612650@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ http://scotslaw.wordpress.com

]]> macmanx on "Scheduled Posts not working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scheduled-posts-not-working#post-612625 Thu, 26 May 2011 16:01:03 +0000 macmanx 612625@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Specifically, which blog did this happen on?

]]> osmith215 on "Scheduled Posts not working" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/scheduled-posts-not-working#post-612583 Thu, 26 May 2011 14:54:52 +0000 osmith215 612583@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The last four or five posts that I have scheduled on my wordpress.com blog have failed to publish. When I return to the dashboard after the time they are set to be published at they’re still showing as being scheduled for a time that is now in the past.

All the posts with which I have had problems have been scheduled through the main dashboard from my PC and have been scheduled to publish no less than 2 hours later and up to as much as 48 hours later.

Does anyone know why this is happening or what can be done to sort it?

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