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Comic publishing power for the web. Turn your WordPress-powered site into a comic publishing platform with Webcomic.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/webcomic
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Missed Schedule? #233

Closed ashikai closed 9 years ago

ashikai commented 9 years ago

Two of my comic pages didn't auto-publish and instead got marked with Missed Schedule. It was easy to fix, I just had to go in and click UPDATE and they published themselves, but it's still weird it didn't do it automatically.

What does "Missed Schedule" mean and what triggers it?

mgsisk commented 9 years ago

Missed Schedule technically means that a post is scheduled to publish (it's post status is future) but it's scheduled timestamp has already passed (so it literally missed it's scheduled publish time).

The most likely cause is WordPress' own Cron implementation, which only fires when WordPress is loaded (e.g. anytime someone requests a page on your site). If your site isn't being requested, WP_Cron never fires and scheduled tasks (like publishing posts at a future time) don't happen.

There are, apparently, several plugins that try to address this issue, but the best way is probably to just use your server's Cron, as described here.

ashikai commented 9 years ago

Ohhh I see! Thanks so much! I rarely worked with scheduled posts (not patient enough >_>;;) so I wasn't aware of this. Super easy fix though, thank you!