Odd Issue: Trackbacks/Pingbacks/Missed Schedule

  • Resolved Sweet2EatBaking

    (@sweet2eatbaking)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    Site: https://www.sweet2eatbaking.com

    I have a bit of a strange issue happening with my site (above). Last year in July I took a blog hiatus until April this year. During this time, the blog was completely idle, no posts, no updates, etc. of any kind – nothing was touched.

    However, when I came back I’ve noticed that every single post I schedule fails, it worked absolutely fine before the hiatus. All posts I create are scheduled so it’s very annoying to say the least. I realise there’s a plugin (which I’ve temporarily installed) that fixes this issue, but I don’t want to use a plugin, I’d like it to work as it should.

    In addition to that, all trackbacks and pingbacks are not being sent. I can receive them, but sometimes they’re late coming through.

    I haven’t installed any new plugins, or as I said before, updated or changed anything at all.

    However, I have had this problem before (when I moved my blog from the directory to the root). The only way I managed to fix that was to literally install the blog again from scratch and manually input all the posts back in. I really, really do not want to go this route again.

    I have since updated my WP to the latest version, and all plugins are now up to date. The problems persisted before I even updated anything, and since updating they persist.

    If anyone could offer any support what so ever that would be great. I’m beginning to think it might be a database issue so if anyone has any insights in anything I can do to check, that would be wonderful too.

    Thank you.

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  • Have you tried:

    – deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

    – re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder and wp-config.php & root .htaccess files – from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.

    Thread Starter Sweet2EatBaking

    (@sweet2eatbaking)

    Up to now I have tried:

    – deactivating all plugins,
    – switching themes. I’ve changed theme after this post anyway, but went ahead and used the Twenty Fourteen to see if it would fix it anyway,
    – Resetting the plugin folder via FTP.

    All of the above haven’t fixed the issue sadly. I’m now about to install a fresh copy of the WordPress files (except wp-content, etc.). I hope this fixes the issue, but it didn’t before.

    I’ll report back after I upload the files.

    Thread Starter Sweet2EatBaking

    (@sweet2eatbaking)

    OK, replaced all the files again. Still no luck. A post has already missed schedule, and testing ping backs/trackbacks still fails.

    As stated before, I think there might be an issue with the database. Does anyone have anymore suggestions for me to try? Thanks in advance.

    Thread Starter Sweet2EatBaking

    (@sweet2eatbaking)

    I’m back and the problem is now resolved.

    The culprit was my hosting. Changed hosting to Bluehost and issues are now fully resolved.

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