Title: Missing scheduled posts
Last modified: October 13, 2016

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# Missing scheduled posts

 *  Resolved [bfdbookblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bfdbookblog/)
 * (@bfdbookblog)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-scheduled-posts/)
 * I’m having an issue with scheduled posts missing their schedule and the posts
   don’t go live until I go in and manually publish. I’ve waited 24 hours to see
   the post will eventually go live and they are not without manual intervention.
   GoDaddy flushed the cache and did some update on their end but it did nothing
   to help me. I’ve had this issue for over a week now. I also use Jetpack.

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 *  Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/)
 * (@jeherve)
 * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-scheduled-posts/#post-8292906)
 * I’m afraid Jetpack might not help you solve this issue.
 * Scheduling problems usually have 2 main causes:
    1. You might not have any readers that come and visit your website, thus triggering
       WordPress’ scheduling system. This can be solved by making sure you have regular
       visits on your site. Tools like [Jetpack’s Monitor module](https://jetpack.com/support/monitor/),
       that have a bot visiting your site every 5 minutes, would solve that issue.
    2. If you have visitors, but WordPress’ scheduling system still doesn’t work well,
       you’ll need to contact GoDaddy again, and ask them if they make any changes 
       to the way Cron works on your WordPress installation. They can also check your
       site’s logs to make sure calls to the `wp-cron.php` file happen regularly.
 * I hope this helps!
 *  [kellyaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kellyaz/)
 * (@kellyaz)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-scheduled-posts/#post-8300369)
 * Jeremy – you said “I’m afraid Jetpack might not help you solve this issue”, but
   then recommended JEtpack Notifications? 🙂
 * So does Jetpack Notifications bot visit trigger the cron just like a page request?
   It’s not just a simple ping?
 * Thanks,
    Kelly
 *  Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/)
 * (@jeherve)
 * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-scheduled-posts/#post-8300389)
 * [@kellyaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kellyaz/) Sorry, I should have
   been more clear 🙂
 * If your scheduling problems are caused by the second cause I listed above, then
   Jetpack can’t help.
 * If, however, you scheduling problems happen because of the first cause (not that
   many people visiting your site, or at least not around the times when you scheduled
   posts), then Jetpack’s Monitor module can indeed help, as it is indeed a page
   request, and not just a ping. If you use WordPress’ default cron system, it will
   consequently trigger a cron check.
 * I hope this clarifies things a bit!
 *  [kellyaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kellyaz/)
 * (@kellyaz)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-scheduled-posts/#post-8300420)
 * Yes it does – thanks!
 * The only site I am having this issue with just had a soft launch and there are
   only a few users; there are visits throughout the day but perhaps not very many,
   so it sounds like Monitor may help!
 * Still, I’m having a little trouble understanding one aspect of this. It doesn’t
   seem WP fails to post a scheduled post if someone visits the site a minute or
   two after the scheduled posting time; otherwise if it required the visits to 
   almost perfectly coincide with post schedules in order for them to run, this 
   would be a widespread problem.
 * There must be a set interval between scheduled time of post and latest run of
   the WP-Cron that determines what is and isn’t missed. It would seem like any 
   future run of the cron would attempt to post all past missed scheduled posts?
   Why can’t it do that?
 * thx!
 *  Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/)
 * (@jeherve)
 * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-scheduled-posts/#post-8300567)
 * > There must be a set interval between scheduled time of post and latest run 
   > of the WP-Cron that determines what is and isn’t missed. It would seem like
   > any future run of the cron would attempt to post all past missed scheduled 
   > posts? Why can’t it do that?
 * I’m afraid I don’t know enough of the WordPress scheduling system to answer that
   question. There must be an interval, but I don’t know what it is.
 * Another alternative to fix all this would be to use a plugin like [this one](https://github.com/sLaNGjI/wp-missed-schedule/archive/master.zip)
   to force trigger all scheduled posts to be published.
 *  [Andrew Arthur Dawson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewarthurdawson/)
 * (@andrewarthurdawson)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-scheduled-posts/#post-8324846)
 * [@bfdbookblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bfdbookblog/) I noticed you
   are having scheduled blog issues. I too use GoDaddy and have spent time on the
   phone with them for probably now over 10 hours of time. I get the run around 
   but what [@jeherve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/) has said above
   with #2, that is not happening, according to GoDaddy. I’m told that they do not
   touch that file and that it comes as is when we get Managed WordPress. The only
   modifications made to that file would be a plugin that touches it, say Jetpack
   for example. I have not been working with scheduled blogs now since September
   14th around the time Jetpack went to version 4.3. I have gotten the missed schedule
   status as well and have “Monitor” active with Jetpack and yet it still does nothing
   to get my publicize to work correctly. I’m trying to see if maybe we have something
   similar in configurations. What other plugins do you have active and what theme
   are you using… just curious. And have you seen the scheduled blog work in the
   past few days?
 *  Thread Starter [bfdbookblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bfdbookblog/)
 * (@bfdbookblog)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-scheduled-posts/#post-8324904)
 * I have not had schedules work for 2 weeks. Nothing suggested has made a difference.
   I too have spent time chatting with GoDaddy with the same result. The additional
   plugins I’m using are as follows:
 * Akismet Version 3.2 | By Automattic
    Module Control for Jetpack Version 1.4.2
   WordPress Editorial Calendar Version 3.6.2 WordPress Importer Version 0.6.3
 * I am using the Creative Blog Version: 1.0.1 theme.
 *  Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/)
 * (@jeherve)
 * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-scheduled-posts/#post-8325193)
 * [@bfdbookblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bfdbookblog/) Could you let
   me know what version of Jetpack you currently use on your site?
 *  Thread Starter [bfdbookblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bfdbookblog/)
 * (@bfdbookblog)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-scheduled-posts/#post-8325204)
 * Version 4.3.2
 *  Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/)
 * (@jeherve)
 * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-scheduled-posts/#post-8325253)
 * Excellent. That’s the latest version, that included a lot of fixes for Publicize.
 * Can you please use Jetpack’s Debugger module to send us some more information
   about your site?
 * 1) Go to the Jetpack page in your dashboard.
    2) Click on the Debug link appearing
   at the bottom of the page. 3) Click the link that says “click here to contact
   Jetpack support.” 4) Fill in the description box and your name and email address.
   Do not hesitate to mention this thread in the description, so we’ll know more
   about what you’ve already tried. 5) Click the “Contact Support” button to send
   us the debug results privately. It’s best not to post this information on public
   forums, as it contains private details about your site.
 * Thanks!
 *  [kellyaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kellyaz/)
 * (@kellyaz)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-scheduled-posts/#post-8325914)
 * Just to give a little feedback; enabled Jetpack’s Monitoring feature did not 
   solve the problem; some but not all scheduled posts still fail.
 * I had my web host set up a real crontab job to run the wp-cron every 10 minutes;
   that also did not solve the problem. The method used was as follows: [](https://easyengine.io/tutorials/wordpress/wp-cron-crontab/)
 * If anyone comes up with something else to try would love to know!
    Thanks!

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