scheduled posts do publish as scheduled in wp 2.1

  • After upgrading to WP2.1, scheduled posts no longer show up at the time they’re supposed to.

    Procedure to duplicate issue:

    1) write blog post
    2) select checkbox and change blog timestamp to the future
    3) hit publish

    Hours later, when the post is supposed to appear, nothing.

    Logging into the dashboard, the blog shows up in the scheduled posts category incorrectly showing the time it will take for the post to appear (if you initially enter 7 hours, it will still say 7 hours).

    To publish, you simply click on the post and hit publish, but it’s a pain and totally contrary to the design of scheduled posts.

    This behaviour is new as of an upgrade from 2.07

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  • Thread Starter tinhead

    (@tinhead)

    Okay, after some reading up on this issue. I found that wp-cron isn’t running properly. This is a configuration issue….

    The server sits behind the firewall and if you try to access the site from the webserver, it can’t see itself (tries to access an external IP).

    Two workarounds without changing code:

    1 – edit /etc/hosts (or c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) to reflect the internal ip of the site

    2 – statically set the internal address in DNS on the internal network

    There are also products out there that do ‘split dns’ – quite a bit more expensive.

    Cheers!

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