Setting posts from Scheduled to Publish immediately

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  sansdomino · Member · Mar 16, 2016 at 6:15 pm

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  I never schedule my posts or otherwise set specific publication dates for them. Regardless some post drafts of mine seem to have picked up “Publish On” dates from somewhere.

  A few earlier forum topics
  [1], [2]
  suggest that this is a bug resulting from an incorrectly set timezone. It seems that mine had indeed been set incorrectly as well, and I hope that this will prevent the issue from arising in the future.

  My question now is: how can I revert these drafts to “publish immediately” status? One old thread [3] refers to “removing the scheduled date/time from the publish module”, but I do not see any way to do this in either currently available editor. In the older editor (username.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?…) deleting the date data entirely gives an error and refuses to save the date edit. In the newer editor (wordpress.com/post/username.wordpress.com/…) deleting the date, or writing “Immediately”, will not change anything and it will revert back to its old date as soon as I close the calendar.

  I know that when actually publishing a post, I can simply set the day of publishing to today (either from the calendar, or in the newer editor, by writing “today”). But this does not work for drafts. If I set now, on March 16th 2016, a post to be published “today”, but do not finish writing it — then when I resume work on it tomorrow (or two months later, or in March 16th 2018), it will still be set to be published on March 16th 2016, not on the day I finish editing and click “Publish”.

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