Scheduled posts do not appear

I meant 2.0 Jon 🙂 Wouldn’t touch 2.1ish. Is anyone any closer to fixing this? It’s causing me huge problems!

Any further progress with this?

No good news I’m afraid zerohalo. I’m still having the same issue.

I think I have discovered another cause for this. I am having the same issue. I saw several people chalk this up to DNS…however, when I created a simple php script to try and fsockopen my own host over port 80 I see an error 111 Connection refused. Since this is on a server I managed and setup, it suddenly made me remember the firewall I configured. It is VERY common that the very first rule in a firewall is to deny any connections coming over the external card that claim to be originating from yourself. This is a common ip packet spoof used in DOS attacks and why would you be connecting to yourself over the outside network anyway…use loopback. SO, the issue here is that the fsockopen connection over port 80 to myself was being blocked by the firewall. To solve this you need to chnage this line

$cron_url = get_option( ‘siteurl’ ) . ‘/wp-cron.php’;

to this

$cron_url = ‘http://127.0.0.1/wp-cron.php’;

You may need to add more before the wp-cron.php if your wp install is in a subfolder. This will cause the connection to be made over the loopback interface and the firewall will allow it as it should.

I suggest (and will create a trac ticket) that the wordpress code change to do this by default, or at least give you the option.

Hi everybody! I’m a new member in this support forum and the reason is because I’m having the same problem as you guys – my scheduled future posts do not appear. I’m using WordPress 2.2 and I have no solution but want to tell you how it works for me, maybe it can be a clue to someone.

My posts seem to become published when they are supposed to, except that they don’t show. But, as soon as someone viewing my site – anyone out there – hits the reload button on their browser, the post appears and the ping goes out. Really strange if you ask me.

I’ve had so much problems with WordPress now that I’m seriously considering changing to another blog/publishing tool. I’d prefer to find a quick and easy solution to this problem though and not having to go through the hassle of changing. Best of luck to you all!

Hi, I never experienced this problem–until I upgraded to WordPress 2.3. Does this in anyway rule out that it is a server side problem (if the upgraded only affected WordPress, and not the server…)?

To elaborate, when I make a timestamp set for the future, the post no longer published on that date, I need to reopen that post once that timestamp has passed and click “save”.

Thanks.

Thanks Otto, I’ll chat with them tomorrow. I use Genevate, and they have been really WordPress savvy and friendly so far.