Scheduled post published via RSS early? Why?

  • DR1665

    (@dr1665)


    14 years, 2 months ago

    This was a surprise to me.

    I check my feed reader this morning and find this post showing up:

    http://mitsubishi.gearboxmagazine.com/2010/02/bill-zissopoulos-2009-mitsubishi-lancer-sportback-ralliart

    I’m a bit nervous about this, as the post is not 100% ready for the world yet and was scheduled to post four days from now.

    The link from the reader tacks on Google’s usual alphabet soup, but trimming that to the usual permalink reveals the post does show up, but maybe it’s just for me as an admin?

    Am I missing something or otherwise unfounded in kinda freaking out, here? I know we have a lot of subscribers via RSS and I would hate to think that we’re presenting a random, haphazard publishing schedule on that front.

    To me, it seems like scheduling the post for the future merely keeps it off the home page. (It does not show in Archives or tags.)

    Thanks for any insight into this.

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    That post is not currently on your site. Nor is it in your RSS feed (and I even checked the full source)

    To me, it seems like scheduling the post for the future merely keeps it off the home page.

    That is most definitely not the case. All posts have a designated status – pending, draft, future, private, or trash. Scheduled posts are those posts with a “future” status. Such posts are not listed anywhere on the site, or the feeds, unless explicitly requested via a custom query.

    However, it is entirely possible that someone altered this post’s status to “published” just long enough for updated feed to be picked up and then switched it back to future again. In theory, a server problem where the servers date was incorrectly adjusted (after a reboot perhaps) and then corrected could result in a similar effect if the timing (ouch!) was just right.

    Thread Starter DR1665

    (@dr1665)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks esmi.

    I see what you mean. Because I had just been logged in to the site, I could see the preview, I guess. Once I logged out, the link did not work anymore.

    I did have a couple people mention it to me, but they subscribe via RSS and probably read the story there.

    Appreciate the prompt response. My fears are allayed. 🙂

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