On several occasions WordPress posts that I schedule for release fail to publish at the chosen date and time – and sometimes fail to publish at all. I’m on WordPress 3.0 and I know that my wp-cron.php is working ok as I get no warning messages and other plugins on my site use it without issue.
After a bit of searching to find an answer I came across a simple plugin, called ‘Missed Schedule’, which will periodically run through your posts and publish anything that has gone past its scheduled date. I installed the plugin and it immediately published my problem post.
A word of warning though – the plugin disables cron jobs native in WordPress. You can comment this line out of the plugin code, but if you’re not too sure about doing that why don’t you just do what I did and deactivate the plugin when you don’t need it?
You can find the Missed Schedule plugin here.
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