My blog posts never publish immediately when I hit 'publish immediately' Why?

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  jrobsonguitar · Member · May 14, 2015 at 4:13 pm

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  Hi, Whenever I add a post to my blog & hit ‘publish immediately’ I get a message saying that my post is scheduled for publishing at whatever the current time is, but it doesn’t actually publish it – the status just stays as ‘scheduled’ even though it should be live

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  kokkieh · Staff · May 15, 2015 at 10:32 am

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  Hi there. Are you using the new Beep Beep Boop editor or the classic editor to publish posts? Whichever one you’re using, see if the same happens when you use the other one (the classic editor is under Posts ->Add New on the WP-Admin dashboard – http://http//jrobsonguitar.wordpress.com//wp-admin/post-new.php). I just want to check if this glitch might be specific to the editor you’re using.

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  ashrivastav1 · Member · May 15, 2015 at 10:39 am

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  Hi, Are you using any plugin to schedule your post. Some settings will be there to select when you want to use this feature.

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  kokkieh · Staff · May 15, 2015 at 10:42 am

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  @ashrivastav1
  As it is IMPOSSIBLE to use plugins on WordPress.com, that cannot be the problem.

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  ashrivastav1 · Member · May 15, 2015 at 10:47 am

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  Ohhh Sorry ! I didn’t noticed https://jrobsonguitar.wordpress.com/

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  ashrivastav1 · Member · May 15, 2015 at 11:09 am

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  @jrobsonguitar

  Is there any url where I can see this issue. I am unable to replicate with my setup.

  Can you please check the timezone once in your setup.

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  jrobsonguitar · Member · May 15, 2015 at 12:08 pm

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  Thanks chaps. I got it sorted out in the end with a bit of experimentation. For some reason WordPress are 1 hour behind. If I hit “publish immediately”, It shows the status as “scheduled”. If I then change the time at which it is scheduled to be published to an hour earlier, it then does publish immediately. There’s probably some setting buried deep within a menu somewhere that I missed to sync the time on my PC thinks to the time that WordPress think is correct. Thanks once again for the responses.

  John.

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  kokkieh · Staff · May 15, 2015 at 12:11 pm

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  Under Settings ->General, check your blog’s timezone, as @ashrivastav1 mentioned, and make sure it’s the same as your computer’s timezone. That might very well be the issue. https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/general-settings/2/

  Note the timezone setting is only available in the WP-Admin dashboard, not in the settings on the My Sites page.

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  ashrivastav1 · Member · May 15, 2015 at 12:16 pm

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  cool :)