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@ jcow – I’ll ‘shut my trap’ (as you so eloquently put it) when the issue gets fixed. I’m sorry, no one informed me that this forum was only for people who agreed with and praised every direction WP goes in. I missed that memo. But thank you oh so much for clearing that up.

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So if I remove the block from wp-cron.php, move it somewhere and/or rename it and have a sever cron process call it, it will work? Are there any problems with that implementation that anyone can see? I.e. is there anything that looks for it to be there that will complain when its not there?

Well, 2.7.1 surprise, surprise DOES NOT fix the issue. I scheduled a post five minutes in advance after completing the updates, sure enough, it goes to “Missed schedule”.

Also, doing a “Quick Edit” to get the publish now button also does not publish the post. It simply sets it to status of published but it never updates the index page with the new post.

Goddamn but this is an annoying little bug.

Greetings from the OKC area.

Wow, that theme is a mess.

http://lucashutmacher.com/wp-content/themes/grain/style.css

/* Dynamic design */ .narrowcolumn { width: 700px; float: left; padding-left: 20px; }

Seems to be coming from that padding-left: 20px; line.

But who knows, it could be coming from all kinds of places. The class=”linkcat” that all those links are in does not even seem to be defined in CSS.

Its in the template/skin/theme, usually under index.php IIRC.

I have ~15 very fast ping sites in my list. I am not willing to delete any of them on my main sites as a huge drop in traffic will result. This missed posts issue was plaguing a few of my blogs where all I have is pingomatic (have not built a customized list for those yet) so this is not the whole problem.

However, while this COULD be part of the issue (See http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8923) its still poor implementation on the WP side of things. A timeout of 0.01 seconds for cron is just silly. Like was suggested in that ticket, someone needs to take a step back and re-evaluate how stuff is being done behind the scenes.

So what it comes down to is we have all these hacks in place which seem to be VERY temperamental and HEAVILY dependent on the server environment allowing non-standard things (like a server being able to talk to itself) so people don’t have to set a cron job on the server?

Give me a break. Whole setup is really poor. Just make a file that I can set as a cron and have it do the updating, and add the ability to set cron jobs to the software requirements, at least for that feature set.

Nope, none. They work fine, even when changed from default.

There are 100s of people having a problem with this. There are several other threads if you search around. I have a full rack of collocated severs and I have root access to every single one of them. The servers run a bare minimum of crapware to reduce conflicts and keep things simple. MySQL, Lighthttpd, PHP and a couple of other things and that’s it. If WP is not working as designed on my servers and 100s of other people’s accounts (most of whom are most likely hosting with webhosts rather than running their own servers, which in turn means they are likely following the more traditional LAMP platform much more than I am) than its WP and not my server that’s broke.

I ditched phpBB because they were constantly playing with the core and breaking stuff. There would be a release and then 10 releases to fix the stuff they should have fixed in the first release but didn’t because they didn’t bother to test properly. They were always worried about how things looked rather than how well they worked. With very few exceptions, anytime developers start focusing on making things pretty, the software’s performance and reliability suffers. I know Web 3.0, AJAX and all that other crap is all the rage. But just like Flash and Shockwave – just because its cool and just because its popular doesn’t mean that it doesn’t suck and doesn’t mean you should adopt it. Worse yet, the end user was always the first beta tester. Its looking like its becoming the same for WP.

Some code monkeys simply don’t understand the meaning or concepts behind terms like stable, production, development, bleeding edge, edge, etc. 2.7 was not ready for release, but they pushed it out anyway. In 2008, we have had how many releases? Too many. So many that I wrote a script to crawl the server and update the 100 and something WP installations that I have running in one shot, since doing it manually was becoming a huge burden on myself and my admin.