Scheduled posts not publishing at scheduled time

  • Unknown's avatar
    exeteranna · Member ·

    I have set up a number of posts to be published at times schuduled in the future but they regular publish later than the time I intended. For example, today I scheduled the post for 7.30am UTC (so it should have published at 8.30 London time) but it published at 9:30am. This has happened a few times, but on other days it has published as intended.
    Can anyone help?

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  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Scheduled posts actually only publish the first time someone views your blog on or after the scheduled time. That’s simply how this feature works:

    Scheduled posts will be triggered by the first visit to your blog on or after the exact date/time you set. If you see that the scheduled time has come and gone and your post has not published, simply log out of WordPress.com and view your blog’s front page. Your visit should cause the post to appear. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/schedule-a-post/

  • Unknown's avatar
    exeteranna · Member ·

    Thank you again Kokkieh. I hadn’t realised. That is a shame it works that way!

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    I can’t tell you why it was designed that way, but they probably had their reasons.

    The timestamp will still show the time you scheduled, and in my experience it appears in the Reader, i.e. in your feed, at the right time (though I admit this isn’t based on conscious observation), but publicize links only go out when the post is actually triggered.

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