How to prevent Follower notifcation of a scheduled post until it's publish?

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  richardeditor · Member · Jan 10, 2015 at 12:30 pm

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  My site’s Followers are receiving notifications of Scheduled new posts BEFORE the date that the post is scheduled to be published. This defeats the purpose of setting a scheduled date!
  The Followers only receive an error 404 message when they try to open the ‘new’ post … which just prompts them to contact me and ask. I don’t want to discourage them! So how can I (or WordPress) set the Follow rules to only notify Followers when a post is ACTUALLY published?

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 10, 2015 at 12:33 pm

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  If you’re using the new Beep Beep Boop editor to create posts, try switching to the classic editor. It’s what I use, I schedule posts every day, and I have no complaints from users.

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  richardeditor · Member · Jan 10, 2015 at 12:53 pm

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  I really do not want to start

  trying

  solutions that could only result in more notifications going out to Followers if they have no affect.
  And on the face of it, I do not see why using either the new or original editors should make a difference.

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  richardeditor · Member · Jan 10, 2015 at 1:50 pm

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  Thank you raincaster, and any others pondering my ‘problem’.
  I think I have found the cause. One of my co-editors now thinks that in error or without realising the significance, that he ‘Published Now’ the rogue post before resetting the published date to a later, Scheduled, date.

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  lizthefair · Member · Jan 10, 2015 at 5:57 pm

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  One of my co-editors now thinks that in error or without realising the significance, that he ‘Published Now’ the rogue post before resetting the published date to a later, Scheduled, date

  Thanks for letting us know the cause of the mystery.

  If it happens again with out human help, please let us know!