Can’t handle scheduling

Hi @calango84,

Thanks for creating a support request. I will try my best to assist you.

In the plugin settings, there’s a help tab, on the very last question ” I am still having issues with the plugin, what can I Do?”, it provides some diagnostic information, can you please copy and paste that in your reply.

Lastly, and I think this is where you might be having an issue, which is sequencing i.e. what you are doing. If you want to schedule a post to LinkedIn via our plugin, you need to: create a post as usual, and schedule the post by changing publish immediately to your scheduled time. Then click the Schedule button for the post. Don’t click the “Share Now” button the metabox, if you click share now it will share it immediately to LinkedIn.

Also if you publish a post, and then set it to a draft, and then schedule it for a later time…of course in that event it’s also going to share to LinkedIn because you published the post initially.

Thanks,

Okay, so I have been doing exactly that. I’ve scheduled the post in WordPress without touching the settings in the plugin, but it still posts it right away.

Here’s the information you requested:

PHP Version: 7.0.33
Wordpress Version: 5.4.2
Plugin Version: 7.4
Do not share posts by default:
Share method: simple
Currently authenticated: 15/07/2020
Default share profiles: 143_XTmiL7
Default share message: New Post: [POST_TITLE] – [POST_LINK]
Sharing to post types: ,Post
Active Plugins:
Akismet Anti-Spam
Better Search
Definitely allow mobile zooming
Site Kit by Google
Imsanity
Regenerate Thumbnails
Rank Math SEO
Simple Image Sizes
WP Twitter Auto Publish
WP LinkedIn Auto Publish

@calango84 the plugin WP Twitter Auto Publish is not affiliated with out, if they are doing something unorthodox it’s possible it might make our plugin trigger incorrectly. So I advise for any further testing deactivate that plugin, and ideally deactivate all other plugins – although I think those other plugins are a low risk of causing issues with our plugin.

Secondly, please try a different theme. Please try this theme: https://www.ads-software.com/themes/twentysixteen/ and try again. Why? Because maybe your theme is mucking around with post statuses.

As I mentioned before, I can’t replicate the issue on my end and it’s not being reported by anyone else, so the issue would most likely be due to your environment.

Seems like it works fine with another theme. I guess this one is on Divi then.

Ok this is encouraging to hear.

I recommend reaching out to Divi authors about this issue. Let me provide some background info you can give to them.

Our plugin uses the standard WordPress hook: transition_post_status (https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/hooks/transition_post_status/) and checks for when posts become published and then carries out our share to LinkedIn functions. Some aspect of their plugin would be carrying out some function which manipulates the post status in some way, or perhaps you have custom code in a child theme doing something. You will need to find and eliminate this. Our plugin doesn’t do anything fancy, it just hooks into transition_post_status so it should work with pretty much every theme.

On a side note and for future reference, if you do experience any issues with plugins in the future, I encourage you to reach out to their support first as they may be able to assist you or point you in the right direction. Also note, we don’t get paid anything for developing these plugins or supporting people on www.ads-software.com plugins, and some developers like me take too much pride in their work, so when we get 1 star reviews, it can be a bit of a slap in the face, especially when we have had a hard stressful day. Thanks for your understanding ??

You are absolutely right. I was too quick here and I do apologize for that. The review has been changed.

Thanks @calango84, I appreciate that. Thank you very much ??

Hi @northernbeacheswebsites

As @calango84, Whenever I schedule a post in wordpress it posts instantaneously to LinkedIn instead of waiting until the post goes live. I’ve tried “Twenty Sixteen” theme as requested, but the problem still occured. I’m using wordpress 5.5.1

Here’s informations from the log :
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PHP Version: 7.3.23
Wordpress Version: 5.5.1
Plugin Version: 7.4
Do not share posts by default:
Share method: advanced
Currently authenticated: 24/11/2020
Default share profiles: 10561681,_brMfsCkFC
Default share message: [POST_EXCERPT] – ?? [POST_LINK]
Sharing to post types: ,Post
Active Plugins:
Advanced Excerpt
Akismet Anti-Spam
Already Existing Tags
AMP
Auto Featured Image (Auto Post Thumbnail)
Booster Extension
Classic Editor
CoBlocks
WordPress Editorial Calendar
WordPress.com Editing Toolkit
Gutenberg
hashtagger
Jetpack by WordPress.com
Layout Grid
Open Graph
Page Optimize
Publish to Schedule
QQWorld Auto Save Images
Quoty
WP LinkedIn Auto Publish
Zapier for WordPress

Hi @pouark,

How are you scheduling the posts? If you are using the standard schedule function it should work fine, but I see you have a few plugins around scheduling and maybe this is the issue. Have you tried deactivating all plugins and scheduling in a standard way?

Thanks

@northernbeacheswebsites , You’re right, when i desactivated “Publish to schedule” plugin, it works fine

Fantastic to hear ??