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Thanks so much Joe. I figured it was unlikely to be this plug in but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to check.

I am guessing something got corrupted as well, I am just not sure how to track down what it is. Can you tell me more about your idea with the options table? I am not sure I even know where to find that. I have old versions of backups so presumably I can compare a working version with the current one, but I am not sure what to even look at.

Thanks so much! Jay

Ok, I just tried that. Renamed the folder and changed it back. Unfortunately no change to the problem.

I just talked to my host’s support and we tried a few things. They were able to deactivate individual plug ins for me by changing the plug in name and then changing it back. That basically “broke” the plug in and started it again. But I still can’t manually deactivate that same plug in through WP. So even turning it off and on at the back end as you suggested didn’t solve the problem.

I also noticed that when I try to activate or deactivate a plug in, I get the yellow box at the top of the page that says Plug In Activated (or deactivated). So WP seems to THINK it is doing something. But when I look at the plug ins themselves, there is no actual change.

I also tried deleting active plugs in by clicking the box and choosing delete from the drop down. That also didn’t work. So basically anything I try doing manually won’t work.

FWIW, the plug in that wouldn’t install was WP to Twitter version 2.5.9. I finally just deleted it (which worked b/c it was never “active”). But still none of my other plug ins will work, which presumably they would if that was what had caused the problem. This was the most recent plug in i tried to install and everything was working before then. So either that caused some sort of permanent problem, or something else is going on with wordpress.

Any other suggestions? All my other plugins have been working fine until now when none of them seem to work.

Thanks!

Thanks!

Ok, don’t think I am an idiot but i have no idea what to do with that. I’m sorry if I am being dense but I really don’t even know where to start.

When I filter by one category, I either click on the category link on the live post (thus pulling up all posts with that category). Or I filter using one of my pages that I have set up to filter that category. Or I sort using my list of posts within the dashboard. So I was hoping maybe something like that was doable for two categories at once so I can narrow my results.

I am totally open to trying your suggestion though if you can explain to me what I would need to do.

Thanks!

Yes, I have talked to my host twice. They said there are no errors that they can find to indicate a problem. I also tried creating a manual cron job instead of using the cron file and that is not working either.

At this point I have absolutely no idea what to do. I am frustrated beyond belief. I just don’t even know what my next steps should be. I have spent hours online researching this and tried about 100 different trouble shooting tasks and potential fixes but nothing is working.

I just have no idea how to keep my site running with no feed. It is just not functional without one. I can deal with the ugly missed schedule posting but my blog can’t survive without a feed. It is just killing my traffic. I have posted something directly in the feedburner forums as well but no one over there is responding and there is no real technical support.

Thanks Esmi, I really appreciate all your help. I am thinking based on all the things I have tried and the research I have done that this is an issue with the cron file.

FWIW, I have tried disabling all plug ins and switching to the Twenty Eleven theme on the live site and it did not solve the problem.

If you or anyone else has any suggestions for fixing the cron file (or resources to check) I’d appreciate it.

Thanks so much for your help and all your time.

Oh, I am sorry! The main site is joyfullyjay.com. The last thing that is appearing is the Coming This Week from Sunday but I have had six posts go live since then.

Nothing is limited, I get several hundred visitors a day so not tons.

Can you tell if the main feed is valid? Or any ideas what to do if it is not? This is just so frustrating bc it came out of nowhere and nothing I am trying is fixing it. The bandaid fix is at least handling the scheduling (altho it is ugly) but the feed problem is majorly affecting my traffic and I have no idea how to fix it. I just have no idea what to do from here.

Yeah my guess is the only people who have hit the dev site are you and I.

It sounds like other people who had this problem ( or something similar) had success editing their cron files. But the posts I found about it were all from at least a year ago and the changes dealt with an older version of WP. my instinct is that is the problem with the scheduling bc I found a plug in that fixed the problem – sort of. Basically it waits for the post to miss and then somehow figures out it and posts it about five minutes late. So obviously this is a bandaid, not a solution but I was desperate. But it seems to indicate the cron file is the problem. I just have no idea what to do to fix it.

Can you tell whether my main feed has any errors? As I said, it pings successfully but I get an error when I try to resync. Thanks!

Just a few more notes. I looked at the dev site again and a post that had been scheduled to go live yesterday didn’t work there either (it was the only one out of the five that had been scheduled when I created the mirror site). So the problem with the scheduling is in both places, and again, nothing has changed recently in either site other than updating WP.

I just ran another test post on the dev site now that it has no plug ins activated and the twenty ten theme, and it didn’t post as scheduled either. So apparently whatever is causing the problem on the main site is also causing the problem on the mirror site and it doesn’t seem to be the plug ins or theme that is the culprit.

Yep, my main site is joyfullyjay.com and this is joyfullyjay.com/dev. They just made a copy and posted it on the subsite but they are located on the same server. (FWIW, I did check with my host and they see no problems on their end).

How were you determining the feed was working there? I just realized that the structure of the sites are the same, but the posts are not. The main site has been updated since I built the dev site but this one has not, b/c I am not making posts here. So the dev site feed shows the latest post I made there, but obviously none of my recent posts.

The problem on my main site started some time after Sunday morning’s Coming Soon post. That is the latest post that shows on my feed no matter how many times I am pinging. Since then I have had five new posts. None of them went as scheduled (each said “Missed schedule” and I had to force the post). And none are showing up on the feed even though they are live.

FWIW, when I try to “resync” with Feedburner, I get two errors, one of which say “Null” and one that says There is an issue that must be addressed with your source feed for the feed “Joyfully Jay”” I have no idea what that means though. Do you know?

Thanks!

Ok, here is a link to my duplicate development site. I deactivated all plugs ins and switched to the twenty Eleven theme. https://joyfullyjay.com/dev/

This site was created in the last two weeks to be an exact duplicate of my main site (one was just copied from the other). During that time, the feed and scheduling on my blog worked fine. The only thing that has changed on either site over that time is the upgrade to the latest version of WP which I made in both places. So this should reflect exactly what my main site has in terms of plugins, etc. The only difference is that the feed pulls from the main site.

If you need to see the other one, I can do that, but I’d really rather not switch it over during prime US daytime hours. Unfortunately twenty ten cuts out way too much of my design to be functional and if the theme is going to be down for any period, it needs to be a less heavily trafficked time. Or at least I would need to pick a short specific time to have it down for you to look at it.

THanks so much, I really appreciate your help! JJ

FWIW, I also updated my cron files with backed up version from when it was working yesterday and still no change. I just tried sending another scheduled post and it still says “missed schedule”.

Again, I am assuming these problems are related but I can’t figure out what to do about either of them.

Sorry for the confusion. I meant that I have not updated my theme or my plugins recently. I have updated WP as you noted.

However, I did try all three steps you noted above and the feed still is not working. I tried pinging from Feedburner after each of the plugins were deactivated and then each reactivated and it still didn’t work. I also pinged after adjusting the theme as well as after resetting the plugins folder and still no luck.

I’d welcome any other suggestions. Thanks!

I haven’t tried any of those but I will. But why would it start to be a problem with the plugins or theme all of a sudden? it was working fine for months and nothing has been updated lately.