How to Publish Scheduled Posts

  • I’ve been scheduling my posts for quite awhile now, but within the past few weeks the scheduling has been working sporadically–sometimes it works, sometimes not.

    Unfortunately, I can’t figure out how to publish the scheduled posts manually. Everything I’ve found online says to switch to draft mode, but when I do this, it still shows the scheduled date/time (which has since passed) and the blue button says “schedule” rather than “publish.”

    I’ve tried scheduling a new time, but it doesn’t work. For instance, I currently have a post which was scheduled to publish today at 7:30. It’s now 7:44 and I’m still seeing “scheduled for” 7:30.

    I really need to get this post up today. Is there any way to “force” it to publish immediately?

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  • For the schedule, have a look under Tools > Site Health to see if there are any anomalies. My guess would be that the WordPress crons are not running properly in your project and this should be visible here.

    You are also using an optimisation plugin with “W3 Total Cache”, which could also interfere with this type of automation. Deactivate this plugin and then test whether the publication then works automatically. If so, you would have to contact the support of this plugin if you want to continue using it: https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/w3-total-cache/

    Thread Starter bastecutfold

    (@bastecutfold)

    Thank you. Yes, I’ve always had the warning in site health about “a scheduled event has failed,” but the scheduled posts have always worked anyway.

    I’m now seeing a new warning that says “outdated SQL server,” which seems to have appeared within the last few days. This is also when scheduled posts stopped working, so I assume they’re connected. It says I need to contact my host so I’ll do that.

    In the meantime, is there any way to manually publish my scheduled posts from the past week, short of copy/pasting all of them into a fresh post?

    You only have to set the schedules posts to Published and set the date to the desired date in the past.

    The message to the SQL server has nothing to do with the problem. It probably appears because your WordPress has been updated to 6.5.x and this has new requirements for hosting environments. Your host is providing you with a database system that is no longer entirely suitable, but this is not a major problem for the time being.

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