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Scheduled posts increasingly late (2 posts)

  1. jayroh
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Hi everyone -

    One of the larger wp sites I help maintain has been seeing some strange goings-on with regards to scheduled posts. Over the last 2 months we're seeing the scheduled posts continue to slip from going live about 2 minutes late, to where it is now - at 30 minutes late (on average).

    We've set a cron job up to hit wp-cron.php every 5 minutes, thinking that would fix it, but it hasn't.

    I know that some might request we turn off all our plugins to help track this down but unfortunately we can't do that in the live environment where the problem is happening.

    Are there any pointers or places we could look to view errors that might be occuring? Or some way to diagnose what's happening when we try to trigger future posts?

    Thank you very much!

  2. Rev. Voodoo
    Volunteer Moderator
    Posted 1 year ago #

    we can't do that in the live environment

    Then you are pretty much unable to troubleshoot THE main issue behind nearly every support problem.

    You can try to set up a testing install on a subfolder/domain, with an exact copy of all your files/theme/plugins/database and see what happens there.

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