Dealing with WordPress “Missed Schedule”

If you are scheduling blog posts in WordPress and seeing a "Missed Schedule" message, it's likely caused by an issue with your web server, or it is WordPress 2.7 that is causing the problem of your blog posts not being posted as scheduled. This is an annoying problem. However, there is a very simple fix that is easy to do.

The "missed schedule" problem seems to point to the web server and WordPress. The "time/date" comparison needs to match in order for your blog posts to get published as scheduled. If you are currently using the WordPress 2.7, blogging platform, you can easily fix the issue by modifying the wp-cron.php file which is located in the root folder.

You simply open your notepad editor in Windows and search for the following line of code, which is located towards the bottom on the file wp-cron.php file.

This is the code you need to search for:
update_option(’doing_cron’, 0);

This is the code you need to replace it with:
//update_option(’doing_cron’, 0);

Next step is to save the wp-cron.php file and upload to your web server. However, make sure that you renamed the current "wp-cron.php" on the web server to "wp-cron.php-org", just in case there is an issue, and you need to resort back to the original file.

The final step is to schedule another blog post and make sure that it processes correctly and that it gets published according to schedule.

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To manually run the cron, you'll need to type or paste the code below in your Internet browser URL without the brackets. "yourdomain.com/wp-cron.php"
If things are working correctly, it should return a blank screen. Furthermore, this should update the time/date" comparison between your web server and WordPress.

Hope this blog post was helpful to you, - - Dealing with WordPress "Missed Schedule" - -

Spunky Jones.

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