Sorry to hear about the problems you are experiencing. We would love to work with you to resolve these issues.
Here are some details.
Smart publishing involves three settings:
– Smart publishing
With this you simply switch on the feature.
– Manually approve posts for smart publishing
Posts shall be approved for smart publishing. This is made to make sure you don’t write an article and ExpressCurate publishes it when it’s still in the process. When off, then you will need to approve the draft post for smart publishing. You can find the checkbox in the publishing widget of the edit post page. When on, all draft posts will be smart published.
– Publish draft articles
This defines the frequency of smart publishing. Every n-th hour a new draft post will be published.
According to your note I can assume that the “manually approve” setting is switched on and you don’t approve the draft post for publishing.
Can you, please check that setting and let us know?
In case of questions, suggestions or issues, please contact us directly at support at expresscurate dot com. We are committed to making sure you have a positive experience with our plug-in.
Looking forward to hearing from you.