Issue with auto-posting to Twitter and Facebook

Are you getting any errors?
Please check your Log/History tab and let me know what do you have there.

No errors. The log is as follows:

[2015-12-01 17:17:18] – [Posted] [Twitter – Twitter] – OK – Message Posted | PostID: **6 – Kam Wah Cafe 金華冰廳 – Polo Bun, Egg Tarts & Milk Tea |aj | Post Link
[2015-12-01 17:17:13] – [Posted] [Facebook – Facebook] – OK – Message Posted | PostID: **6 – Kam Wah Cafe 金華冰廳 – Polo Bun, Egg Tarts & Milk Tea |aj | Post Link
[2015-12-01 17:09:01] – [Scheduled] [Twitter (Twitter) for ******0944(2015-12-01 17:09:04)] – PostID:(516)
[2015-12-01 17:09:01] – [Scheduled] [Facebook (Facebook) for ******0950(2015-12-01 17:09:10)] – PostID:(**6)
[2015-12-01 17:09:01] – [Start =- ]- ——=========#### NEW AUTO-POST REQUEST PostID:(**6) Scheduled +3 ####=========——

(* added manually)

As you can see from the time stamps the message only got posted when I clicked the ‘repost’ buttons 8 minutes later.

Do you have WP Cron setup correctly?
https://www.nextscripts.com/tutorials/wp-cron-scheduling-tasks-in-wordpress/

I’ll have a look at that but the autoposting was fine before the recent update.

More likely that the plugin update broke something. I’ll check the WP Cron and post here if I can fix it.

Edit: could Wordfence be messing with this?

This works again, I didn’t change anything – strange.

As a few follow-up question, how does the %ANNOUNCE% tag work? It says first N words of a post, is it possible to specify ‘N’?

This works again, I didn’t change anything – strange.

That’s a clear sign that your WP Cron is unstable. It works fine until it become overwhelmed, then it comes back to normal.

Correct setup: https://www.nextscripts.com/tutorials/wp-cron-scheduling-tasks-in-wordpress/

is it possible to specify ‘N’?

Yes, of course, you can set it in the plugin settings.