Scheduling Blog Posts
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Hi, so I’ve run into this issue every time I have scheduled a Sunday Snippet blog post.
I have written the blog post, selected the date and time I want it to post itself, and clicked ‘schedule’ just as I should. However, when that date and time comes around that is should be posting itself, it doesn’t post. If I do not log onto my blog and go to mess with the post — by means of editing it — the post will not go live on its scheduled time.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there a reason my scheduling a post won’t work correctly? I have talked to other WordPress bloggers and they do not have this issue, and I am doing the same thing they are doing. Can anyone help me out on how to fix this so that my scheduled blog posts actually go live without me having to log in and edit them to make them post themselves?
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Scheduled posts will be published only if someone visits your site after the scheduled time. It could be you or any of your visitors.
I suggest you logout of your WordPress.com account after the scheduled time has passed and visit your site, and your schedule post will appear.
Give it a try and let me know how it goes.
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That doesn’t sound right…
I know other bloggers who schedule their posts for a specific time — say 12:02am — and whether they are on or not, I am getting the email notifications and updates that they posted something at that scheduled time, not this 15 minutes later I’m getting because mine won’t post when they are scheduled to. And they aren’t going back to edit or view their site to do so to make it go live at the time they wanted.
So why won’t mine do that? If it’s a scheduled post, it should go live when it is scheduled to go live, not when someone goes to view your site. That defeats the purpose of scheduling because someone may not be visiting your site at that time, but they would visit if the post went live as it was supposed to and the email notification to followers went out.
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The notification email would be sent at the scheduled publish time.
Could you check this support guide and rule out all other troubleshooting steps: https://en.support.wordpress.com/schedule-a-post/#troubleshooting-scheduled-posts
Wrong timezone is the biggest reason scheduled posts are not published as expected. So it would be good to double-check the timezone and rule it out.
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I have already checked the timezone, that is not my issue. And I have checked with a friend who follows my blog — she did not get my notification email of a scheduled post until I logged on and edited the post that was scheduled ten minutes after the fact she should have gotten the email.
I had the post scheduled for 12:03am, just an hour ago, but I had to go in and edit it at 12:15am because it was not posting. My friend did not get the email notification for the post until 12:15 when I went to edit the post.
I will check the support guide, thank you, but none of these so far seem to be my issue, and I cannot figure out what the problem is.
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I tagged this thread for staff’s attention.
Please hold on until staff gets a chance to help you.
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Scheduled posts will be published only if someone visits your site after the scheduled time.
is exactly the way it is designed to work – if someone visits the site an hour after the post is scheduled the post will be published at that time and the time stamp set to the scheduled time – I have tested this several times
Alexa says you have a very low traffic site so quite normal for there to be times when people don’t visit your site for a while
and if nobody visits your site why publish it? to publish on a Chron Job (exact schedule) would be a terrific waste of server cpu time and resources
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No – the email goes out when the Post is Published and it is also then put in the RSS feed
I subscribe to my own site and have watched the timing several times
The actual code is in the theme and check for scheduled post is a call each time a Page or Post is displayed unless they have changed the code since I had my WordPress.ORG site
Also if a Post really goes out a bit late – the person the OP was worried about still gets notified and can then visit – just a bit later than the OP hoped for
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the email goes out when the Post is Published
You mean the email will be sent after someone visits the site and causes the scheduled post to publish, right?
So email won’t be sent as soon as the scheduled time passes.
Thanks for correcting me.
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You mean the email will be sent after someone visits the site and causes the scheduled post to publish, right?
Yes that is correct
You are welcome
The scheduled post is one of the more misunderstood things –
But if someone has a low traffic site there might be some time between visitors – my site has enough traffic that even in the slow period things usually publish within a few minutes of the schedule even in a slow period
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That makes absolutely no sense.
The purpose of scheduling something should be to draw in followers when you can’t get on yourself to get the post up. When you’re busy.
That’s like saying why bother scheduling a post at all if you’re such a low site no one is going to see it anyways. It’s literally just a slap in the face and frankly hurtful.
The post should go live on the scheduled time. It should send out that email or how else are any of your followers going to know you even have a post to go up? Hm? By mere luck and chance that someone stops by? What if no one visits the site the whole day but they would have if they had gotten an email notification of a scheduled blog post? Hm? How is that fair? No, that’s not right and that’s not at all fair to lower rating sites then.
How is that a waste of server use if that post going live, when it should, when it would bring in more people viewing the site because they actually get the notification for a post.
I’m sorry, but that is a really shitty way of running scheduled posts if that is the real case and I want it changed to go live when it is supposed to. That is unfair to lower rating sites, and frankly, that could be considered discrimination for not being overly popular on your site if you’re just starting out or don’t have a big group of followers yet. That is NOT how you run an equal blog site.
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Hi Daelyn!
I’m afraid that yes, scheduled posts are triggered by visits made on your site. I apologize that you find this less than ideal. It is not meant to discriminate against anyone with low-traffic sites at all, it’s just been the way it is ever since. Note that this is mentioned in our support page as well:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/schedule-a-post/
If you wish for a more precise manner in which scheduled posts are published, you may pitch your suggestions at our Ideas forum found here:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/ideas
A self-hosted WordPress.org might also be another option you can look at as well, if you do not wish to rely on site traffic to publish scheduled posts:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org
If you have any other questions, please don’t hesitate to let us know! Thank you. :)
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