Scheduled Post is Federated Immediately on Save

jmking-iftas commented 1 month ago

Quick summary

Created a post tied to a timed press release for publishing the next day. Blog is federated as an entire blog, authors are not enabled. Blog is hosted on Wordpress.com (Creator package). Scheduled post was federated immediately, with no way to retract/delete.

Steps to reproduce

Create a scheduled post on a blog that has a federation setting
Choose a scheduled date for publish
Click "Schedule" to save the document
Document is set to scheduled, but document is immediately federated

What you expected to happen

Document should not federate until publication date time

What actually happened

Document federated immediately

Impact

All

Available workarounds?

No but the platform is still usable

Logs or notes

No response

pfefferle commented 1 month ago

@mattwiebe are you aware of .com doing something special here? I can't reproduce it on my local WordPress installation.

mattwiebe commented 1 month ago

I tested just now on a Creator Plan site, I had the opposite problem: the postdated post never seems to have contacted its followers at all. Strange.

Dotcom Simple worked as expected though.

drbruced12 commented 1 month ago

I seem to have the same problem as @mattwiebe - I always schedule my posts, and with the most recent one, it didn't publish to the Fediverse at all. I am also using the creator plan on wordpress.com

drbruced12 commented 3 weeks ago

Update: plugin has worked correctly with my most recent post. I scheduled it last week, but when it published today the post showed up in the Fediverse correctly.

pfefferle commented 2 weeks ago

@jmking-iftas do you use the "Publish to Schedule" plugin?

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduled-and-updated-posts-showing-up-on-the-fediverse/#post-17864117

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