Wordpress "Missed schedule" bugfix?
 

My scheduled wordpress posts do no longer get automatically published.
Has anybody ever come across this problem?

It started happening after I had some performance issues on my server. The server's CPU was upgraded. Now support is of course blaming Wordpress to be the problem.

I've already tried pretty much all suggestions:
- I have hacked cron.php and increased the time-out
- I have added cron.php and wp-cron.php to the no-cache list
- I have deactivated plugins
- I have reduced the number of entries in the ping-list

I fucking hate Wordpress... :disgust

might be to simple, is your servertime ok?

sounds like that's the problem :thumbsup

Oh, yeah, I forgot to add this:
the server time was checked and is okay.
PHP memory limit is 128MB so that should be okay, too. :Oh crap

I could set up a cron job that pings my site. But that would be only a work-around.

Run a query, does that show correct time too?
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SELECT NOW();

never ran into this issue myself.

Checked it:

So yes, the time seems correct.

Ironically enough, I came to post and see if anyone besides me ever has this problem. I scanned new threads before posting, and found out I am not alone.

I don't know what is causing it, but it is yanking my chain hard. If I find any fix, I will post back.

What version f WP are you running?

This problem happened a lot with the 2.8.x and 2.9.x series for me, but with 3, have never had it happen yet.

Also, try disabling all plugins, then testing it. If it works, re-enable them one at a time and keep testing until you discover which is the culprit.

Please let me know when you find a fix for this, selena.

I've already invested a couple of hours in finding a bug fix for this. So far, nothing has helped (see above).

I use the latest version of Wordpress (3.01)!

I have had this problem before and how I fixed it was this:
Let's say I write a post and schedule it for 1.00pm tomorrow. Once I click the publish button, I go to edit and change the scheduled published time to say 1.05pm and update it.
This has always seemed to work for me. I first had this problem arrive when daylight savings time started. The time I had set and the server time got out of whack. Took me days looking for a fix until a read this one somewhere. It's a pain but it does work for me, hopefully for you too.

I find that inacceptable. Publishing in wordpress already takes a long time. I will not push the publish button twice or change dates after publishing.

Couldn't agreee with you more. It appears it is a common problem and there's no single, easy or permanant solution to it.
However, the above fix does work for me, not saying it will for you though.

I have deactivated all plugins and still get this fucking error. :mad:

I use a plugin called "Missed Schedule" and it fixes it up.

happened to me under 2.8 also.

I am using 3.0.1 as well. None of the aforementioned things had fixed it for me either.

I was playing around with it a few minutes ago, trying some other things I had found on the web, with no results. I had a post showing as missed schedule.

I installed this plugin. As soon as I hit activate, I went back and looked at my posts. The previously Missed Schedule one had the status changed to published. I confirmed that by checking out the blog.

My understanding is that it will only work on posts with a date/time in the past that still have post_status=future. Some supposed fixes I had found were publishing things that were scheduled and had not yet reached their scheduled publish time.

I am going to write one and schedule it for a few hours from now. Will post results.

I know there is a guy who sells a plugin. Besides, I don't like to stitch up a broken system.

All those bugfix plugins that people have written would be unnecessary if only one could found the source of the problem.

I don't recommend you to install this plugin. It will add an additional query to all your page loads.
You are better off just adding a cron job manually.

I have the same problems. Fucking hate this shit. Had to log into a shitload of blogs to publish manually. :(

It's a pain, yes.

I have set up a cron job now to run every 30 minutes. I will see tomorrow if it works.

I'm happy to use old, heavy modified versions, so far so good, no problems. Every never version of WordPress has more holes than swiss cheese.

The funny thing about wordpress are all those ridiculous functions with undefined return values. How can so many people put up with this piece of shit...

I would rather not use it, as I try to keep the plugins to a minimum. I am still in the process of playing around and seeing what will work and what will not.

So far, that is the only thing that I have tried that will go down in the "worked" column.

If I come up with another solution, I'll post back.

I will try this fix today:
http://sankhomallik.com/blog/2009/09...sing-schedule/

I doubt it will work. Because the cron job that was scheduled to execute wp-cron.php every 30 minutes has no effect. That's a serious problem.