WordPress not publicizing on scheduled time and date
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My wordpress is not publicizing itself on a scheduled time and date. This happens to my Facebook, twitter, and even my wordpress blog page. I select a scheduled date and time, for instance yesterday I scheduled for 15:00 to publicize, yet come around 15:10, I checked my FB page, my twitter page, and even my wordpress blog site and it did not publish. It wasn’t until I logged onto the dashboard, and just logging on, it published to everywhere. This happens quite a bit, that I have to login to just the dashboard to publicize a scheduled blog.
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Hi,
According to http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/schedule-a-post/
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.
Hope that clears it up.
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It still does not make sense. Why schedule a post then if I still have to login or visit my page on or after that time I supposedly scheduled. It totally defeats the purpose of scheduling a post to publicize when in fact, it does not publicize at the given time that you scheduled. Its almost like I should save a draft, wait until I want to publish it, then login and publish now. Same scenario.
A year ago, this worked. I would set a date in the future, a set time and click schedule. Once that time passed, it wold publish. This was without going to my blog site or even logging in. I would see the post publish on my FB page and my twitter.
To me, I believe there is some coding issues that needs to be resolved. Can somebody verify this?
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The first visit to your blog doesn’t have to be by you. If one of your visitors visits your blog, that will trigger the scheduled post as well so perhaps a year ago, you had a visitor that viewed your blog around the time of your scheduled post.
As far as I remember, this has been the way scheduled posts have worked on WordPress.
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Not in all actuality, it used to post at the given date and time. I remember it doing this almost a year ago. But it gets back to my point, which maybe an actual WordPress support person can look at, that when I schedule a post, lets say today at 5pm CST, which is 17:00 CST, it should fire at that given time, not when a person visits. Lets say I don’t visit my site after I schedule the post to publicize, and nobody else visits the site at all this week, so does that mean in theory that my post will not fire at all at 17:00CST today or thereafter? The schedule does not make sense in theory if that is the way it should work.
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I’ll tag this for staff so they can take a look. Please subscribe to this thread and be patient while waiting for a response.
Good luck!
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The way scheduled posts are triggered for publication by the first visitor clicking into the blog after the scheduled date and time has always been the same here.
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So if the scheduled post is triggered by the first visitor clicking into the blog, then why schedule? If I am wanting a post to publish at 17:00 CST Wednesday, then it should publish at 17:00CST on Wednesday. Not just wait for somebody to casually stroll by and visit the site lets say at the following Friday at midnight, then it finally publishes. I am confused by you guys just saying that it happens on a site’s/blogs first visit. Then why should I schedule? What’s the point of the schedule button? It should be taken away and deleted if it does not do what its supposed to do. This is nonsense.
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The way the software is designed is the way it is designed and the way it operates.The first visitor to the site after the scheduled date and time triggers publication of scheduled posts and you cannot change this. I’m sorry but if you do not like the way this operates then do not schedule your posts.
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My whole point is that a few years ago, it did do this. After 17:00CST or whatever time I had it scheduled for, it would fire to do it. I will wait for a staff member to respond accordingly on this support topic.
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Hi there,
The method that has been described by the volunteers is exactly how our scheduling function works (and has worked for quite a few years). I completely understand that you would prefer it to work in a different manner, and we welcome suggestions to make this change in our Ideas Forum:
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