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Have you tried:
– deactivating ALL plugins temporarily to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate them individually (one-by-one) to find the problematic plugin(s). If you can’t get into your admin dashboard, try deactivating via FTP or SFTP or whatever file management application your host provides. If applicable, also remember to deactivate any plugins in the mu-plugins folder. The easiest way is to rename that folder to mu-plugins-old.
– To rule out any theme-specific issue, try switching to the unedited default, core-bundled Theme (such as Twenty Twelve or Twenty Thirteen) for a moment using the WP dashboard. If you don’t have access to your admin area, you can switch to the default theme by renaming your current theme’s folder in wp-content/themes and adding “-old” to the end of the folder name using via FTP or SFTP or whatever file management application your host provides. Alternately, you can remove other themes except the default theme. That will force your site to use it.
– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems (because the hooks remain unless plugins completely removed or some plugins stick around in cached files. So by renaming the folder, you break them and force them inactive).
– If the above troubleshooting steps fail to resolve the issue, try manually re-uploading all files and folders EXCEPT the wp-config.php file and the /wp-content/ directory from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones. Read the Manual Update directions first!
– Always backup everything (including your database) before doing any actions, just in case.
So I’ve tried a variety of things now, none of which fixed the problem. I did some checking around and found the following information:
Scheduled posts failed after we went off DST.
Other friends of mine who run WordPress blogs reported the same thing happening to them. None of them have been successful at fixing it.
An hour after a post was supposed to go out, it claimed to have missed the deadline by 23 hours.
Where did you get your theme?
I don’t remember, I’ve had it for years.
Here’s my key point: when scheduled posts stopped working, I hadn’t changed anything. They were working and then we went off DST and they stopped working. I was running the then latest version of WP at the time. I have since updated to the current latest version and the problem hasn’t gone away.
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So I’ve tried a variety of things now, none of which fixed the problem.
Does “a variety of things” include any of the basic troubleshooting steps I suggested in my previous reply?
The theme you are using, if from WordPress.org hasn’t been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. If from a vendor, like http://www.methemes.com/free-wordpress-themes/japan-style/ it is not supported in this forum.
Other friends of mine who run WordPress blogs reported the same thing happening to them.
Are they on a Windows server also?
Here’s my key point: when scheduled posts stopped working, I hadn’t changed anything. They were working and then we went off DST and they stopped working.
Then the only thing left is the server and DLST has not been an easy thing for MS.
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst
