Consistent “Misschedule” Error
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Agreed we’re just pushing the bounds of the scheduled posts a bit.
Since we know you get plenty of traffic and that’s not the issue, we’re working on this assumption now:
- If you schedule a post for just a few hours from now, it gets missed.
Questions we have left:
- do they ever auto publish after that?
- did this only recently start happening for you, or did you only recently start scheduling posts that are so close to the publishing time?
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Thank you for your update, I really appreciate it.
“If you schedule a post for just a few hours from now, it gets missed.”
“do they ever auto publish after that?”
Yes, in my time zone it is currently 7:25 AM; if I schedule a post right now to post at 10 AM or 11 AM OR 12 AM or later on tonight, it will miss schedule and does not post automatically. But it appears that if I schedule posts to publish at a time when 24-hours or more has passed, that’s when they post and auto-post as scheduled.
“did this only recently start happening for you, or did you only recently start scheduling posts that are so close to the publishing time?”
Yes, this specific consistent missed scheduling pattern has only started about 2 weeks ago in the latter part of November, and did not happen to such a degree or extent prior. I use to schedule posts ALOT on a weekly basis when I use to post regularly to this page: https://aktionkilla.wordpress.com/comments/
)That page has a countdown timer at the top which I used to give people an estimation of when they can expect new topics to be posted, and I had been doing that for a few years but it’s worth noting that at that time I did not schedule 450 post in advanced like I have done with the comic series. The max scheduling for this page ( https://aktionkilla.wordpress.com/comments/ ) only went up into the teens at best and that was only occasionally.
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Yes, this specific consistent missed scheduling pattern has only started about 2 weeks ago in the latter part of November, and did not happen to such a degree or extent prior. I use to schedule posts ALOT on a weekly basis when I use to post regularly to this page: https://aktionkilla.wordpress.com/comments/
Would you happen to recall whether it was very definitely happening more after any particular date? We can try to check if we can find any updates from mid- to late-November which could be related.
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That is a pretty good idea.
The best I can remember right now is that the issue started happening around the time that I started to include audio in my “Look It Up” topics, and this was around the 22nd and 23rd of November. -
Just to make sure – it’s not happening exclusively to those “Look It Up” posts that have audio in them? It’s any post scheduled less than 24 hours in advance? We’re still trying to see if there’s anything that could narrow it down!
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Thank you, I greatly appreciate all of your efforts and I apologize for the delay in response.
At first, I generally assumed that the timing issue would affect all post formats as long as they were scheduled but I too wondered if the problem was probably connected to the inclusion of audio.
The very first post that had audio included was scheduled and it posted on-time, but after reading your post today, I decided to test and see if there was any connection where this issue possibly mainly affects my posts with the audio block included versus a post with no audio, and the post that I scheduled for 9:30 AM today also missed scheduled and did not publish.
Yes any post that is scheduled to publish in less than 24-hours or more, gets “missed scheduled”.
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As a test, I am going to leave the post as “missed scheduled”, for now, to see what happens and to see if it actually does eventually post.
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“Sounds good! This has been a tricky one to nail down, so let us know what you find out!”
Thanks, good to hear your input I actually left the post as “Miss Scheduled” for as long as I could to see what would happen and as it turned out, it actually did post at some point. It did not post at the originally scheduled time of 9:30 AM, but it posted sometime around 11:00 AM.So it’s still missed scheduling but the posts that are Missed Scheduled still post except way after the fact
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Hi there,
It did not post at the originally scheduled time of 9:30 AM, but it posted sometime around 11:00 AM.
I’m not sure I understood that, how is it that you are checking when it is published? By visiting your site periodically? When you visit are you logged in to your account or logged out and visiting as an “anonymous” visitor to the site. Or possibly you are checking by some other method like when it is shared on social media or some other location?
Also, I noticed on your site that you have around 400 blog posts scheduled, is this typical? The reason I ask is because we have a limit of 100 scheduled posts max, so if you typically schedule more posts than that it could be a factor in the inconsistencies you are seeing. https://wordpress.com/support/schedule-a-post-or-page/#troubleshooting
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“I’m not sure I understood that, how is it that you are checking when it is published? By visiting your site periodically? When you visit are you logged in to your account or logged out and visiting as an “anonymous” visitor to the site. Or possibly you are checking by some other method like when it is shared on social media or some other location?”
I actually check to see if it was posted by the various ways programmed into WordPress designed to help users keep track of activity on their website. So I wait for a topic to post and if I do not see the post actually “published” and I do not see it visible on the site and I do not see any notification that it was indeed posted and then I check the admin dashboard under the “posts” section and see “Missed Scheduled” actually marked on the post, then its clear to me that the post did not post at the time it was scheduled to publish and that is how I can tell that there is/was an error.
“Also, I noticed on your site that you have around 400 blog posts scheduled, is this typical? The reason I ask is because we have a limit of 100 scheduled posts max, so if you typically schedule more posts than that it could be a factor in the inconsistencies you are seeing. https://wordpress.com/support/schedule-a-post-or-page/#troubleshooting”
Thanks for the heads-up. Your comment about the 100 schedule post limit is interesting since it was never indicated anywhere on the user’s end. I don’t know if that section was “updated” or edited recently, but typically all (or most) limits are hard-coded into the programming of Wordpess which makes it hard and almost impossible for users to go beyond any limits that can potentially cause issues unless there is a bug/glitch. If people want to exceed limits on a Wordperss.com hosted site, they usually can only do so my using plugins which cannot be used on a basic plan, so it’s awkward to me that there is a limit for scheduling posts that can actually be exceeded without the use of a plugin (unless we consider that there is a bug or a glicth) but isn’t indicated to the users except for in the troubleshooting section which no one would really notice.
Even Supernovia told me that they were not aware of any defined upper limit. So nothing was indicated or mentioned about the 100 limit until now. In that case yes, there was no way for me to know about this since it is hidden in the troubleshooting page and was not officially introduced within the general use terms or descriptions of the various functions, features and tools used to make posts and pages on a user-operated blog/website.
I guess going over 100 scheduled posts might be the issue but it was working well with well over 100 scheduled post for a long time until the latter periods of November so it could be an indication that over 300+ – 400+ scheduled posts could be the breaking point but I don’t know and I would have to wait for the overall posts that I have scheduled to come down so I can see if that has any effect.
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Hello and Happy New Year to all of you. I just wanted to give you an update about the Miss Scheduling error that I was having.
I don’t know exactly when this situation may have been resolved since I only discovered this yesterday when I actually tried it again, but yesterday I scheduled a new post just to see if the Miss Scheduling issue still persists, and to my intrigue, this time the post actually posted without Miss Scheduling.
To test to see if this was just a one-off event or not, I actually scheduled another one, on the same day, to post at a different time and as it turns out, that post also posted as scheduled too.
So for now, it seems that things are working well again. I don’t know if there was an update recently or what adjustments or configurations made to WordPress influenced this development, and I may have to monitor the situation moving forward to see just how constant the scheduling remains accurate, but on this occasion, I just wanted to let you know what I noticed just in case the feedback may be helpful.
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