Thanks for your message. It depends on your host. I created it initially for my daughter’s blog site on Godaddy, which seems to be the biggest culprit of missing scheduled posts. When she disabled it last month, it skipped some scheduled posts.
You can disable it and test – and please let me know the results and what web host you’re on!
Hi @mossifer, thanks for getting back to me about this!
So I did test it for the past 5–6 days and many posts were published without any problems, but I just had a bad experience with one a few minutes ago, so I’m re-enabling your plugin.
We run our site on a very powerful and well-optimized Cloud Dedicated server at Liquid Web, obviously with a “real Cron Job” for WordPress and all. This shouldn’t happen, but it rarely still does.
Thanks for letting me know! Just realize this plugin is a band-aid to help you troubleshoot what’s really going on. You should really discuss this issue with your web host.
I’ve set up the real wp-cron.php to run every 2 minutes, @mossifer. Do you think that might be the issue here? Does it need to be every single minute?
I’ll answer it myself: nope.
After I sent you the last message, I edited the cron job to run every minute. I already had a failed post schedule. So weird. 🫤
I’m not sure how the WP cron checks for scheduled posts (future or past), but my plugin is checks the database for missed posts anytime someone hits your home page or a single post. As you can imagine this could be taxing on the db for a mid- to high-traffic site, so I don’t recommend it as a long-term solution.
Judging from the thousands of downloads of my plugin, though, this is an issue with WordPress and/or its cron so maybe I will contact their team (or volunteer) to work with them on it.
Thanks for your feedback!
That sounds like an excellent idea, @mossifer!
I believe the big issue here is that WordPress’ native system simply ignores posts that somehow weren’t published at the time they should have been. It should work just like your plugin does — it doesn’t matter if 2, 3, 5 or 10 minutes have passed, go ahead and publish any pending posts whenever a new check is done.
