Bluebird Blvd.

Well, that was too good to be true!

While the fix I mentioned above does work, it also adds a weird suffix to my site address for some reason. Because I don’t know enough code to get myself out of the trouble I get myself into, I went ahead and removed that additional callback item from the wp-include file.

*Sigh* Back to the drawing board, I guess. Has anybody seen my crayons?

Okay, I’ve got scheduled posts up and running now. I read this four-year-old message thread v. carefully:

Scheduled Posts Still Not Working

Before I added the new callback function recommended by Samuel Wood in that message thread, I also cleared out any plugins that might conflict with post scheduling, did a check on my theme for same, and then combed through my wp-config file looking for any code debris left by plugins I was no longer using. (A caching plugin I tried and removed two months ago left a few things laying around in wp-config that probably should not have been there.) And finally, I reinstalled WordPress for good measure. (Some of these checks were recommended by WP.ORG Moderator Esmi in that same four-year old thread.)

At that point, I added the callback function mentioned in the message thread above.

I have run four staggered test posts for the last two hours, and posts now seem to be posting on time. However, my grandmother used to always say, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch,” and boy, was she right. Please read the warnings in the next two paragraphs.

A NOTE OF WARNING: After a year of heavy studying, I do understand why the added define parameter works, but just barely. Much of my understanding of this fix today has to do with the person who wrote the fix, Samuel Wood. Please do not ask me for further explanation if you do not understand the link above, because I will be useless. Seek out a proper volunteer moderator and ask her/him for help.

CAVEAT EMPTOR!: One more thing, and this is important to understand before you do anything: Wood clearly states at the end of his explanation that this method is not an absolute fix but a workaround, and this workaround may not have consistent results.

FINAL THOUGHTS: If I find more than a casual inconsistency in posting, I will come back and mention it here or I will open a new thread where I will ask a proper moderator for assistance. In any case, I live in hope. Best of luck to you all.

EDITED ONCE: For clarification of a very muddy sentence.

Thank you so much for the suggestion, leisgang! As for WP Missed Schedule Fix Failed Future Posts, I did install it for a week, and I did not experience a change in missed schedule posts. I’ve gone ahead and deleted that plug-in, andI’ve just reinstalled WP Crontrol. Now I’m going to check all of my scheduled cron jobs.

Same here with the missed schedule problem, Arianne Griffiths— @gerhard59, I tried “WP Missed Schedule fix failed future posts” and I could not get it to work either. Just like you, my site’s cron jobs were perfectly fine. The time signatures on my stuff appear to be okay as well.

As for the posts, I knew to publish from Quick Edit if I saw a “missed schedule” note—

For those of you knew to WordPress who sorting out how to post a missed post, go to your posts list in your dashboard, open the post that should have posted and change the status from “scheduled” to “published.” Remember, though, that the post will publish to whatever time it was supposed to publish, not the current time.

My scheduled posts are supposed to go up before I’m awake since I have an international readership. This missed post thing is really a problem for me. I create original content and some of it is time sensitive. I’m really bummed out about this. If I find a fix, I’ll be sure to check back in with y’all.

Thank you, JRF! Your explanation of why and how plugins typically leave data behind is incredibly useful.

Furthermore, I appreciate your taking the time to unpack this question of mine completely, and I am really appreciative of your disclosure about your plugin’s tracking schedule issue and its current pull request.

JRF, I am seriously impressed. Thanks for this! I learned something new today because of you!

Is there anything else that WordPress SEO by Yoast might have “accidentally left behind”?

…every why hath a wherefore. —(from The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare.)

*Correction: Forgot to add “the” to The Comedy of Errors.

Dear Brad,

When I was using your theme, I used the standard blog template as far as I know. I’m not knowledgeable enough yet to make a great number of changes to my blog— fundamental or cosmetic.

But I am trying to get up to speed as fast as I can! I’ll have to look that up. I don’t know why someone would use a different blog template?

Thanks,

Courtenay.

Dear Brad,

It’s my pleasure. Let me know if there’s anything I can do to help.

Additionally, would you mind sharing the broad strokes of your findings? I am trying to learn as much as I can as quickly as I can about PHP (and structured data and so on), and I’m really curious as to how this happened with your theme specifically.

If not, that’s fine too. Best of luck with sorting this through quickly and easily.

Best wishes,

Courtenay.

Dear anyone,

As I didn’t hear back from anyone, and it’s been a week, I just wanted to pop in and say that my missing .hatom feed information problem continued until tonight.

Because I was starting to sweat the possibility of a major penalty from Google, I went ahead replaced Leaf with WordPress Twenty Twelve to see if that made any difference to the Google Structured Data Testing Tool.

Just before I made the switch, I ran the Google Structured Data Testing Tool on my blog with Leaf still installed, and yes, all of my .hatom information continued to show up completely missing.

Okay, so I switched to Twenty-Twelve and ran the same Google Structured Data Tool not five minutes later. I was sort of shocked to find a good deal of my absent .hatom data.

To be clear— I changed nothing but my theme between one test, then the switch to Twenty Twelve, and the next test.

It’s not perfect— I am still having minor hiccups with my .hatom info, but at least it’s showing up now.

I am reluctant to reinstall Leaf because I do not know enough to fix the .php related to my .hatom feed files so that the relevant information shows up properly. (Geez, I don’t even know if I am saying this correctly!) And I am super-bummed about it because Leaf is an otherwise lovely child theme. Dang.

Thanks.

Courtenay.

Dear Paulwpxp,

A few more notes: Since I am such a technical idiot, I had to re-upload my entire site, from scratch, from the original wordpress.com site, at least three times in a two-week period. These were supervised-by-my-webhost moves because I tried doing it by myself, but had no idea that the WP .xml file was too large for the standard upload size. Then, I proceeded to trash it once it was uploaded, repeatedly. I had to start from a clean database each time. As I said before, I am an absolute idiot in all of these matters— but I am trying to learn as quickly and as efficiently as I can, to the best of my ability.

Video: Please excuse my unclear language. “Oddly sized” as in the videos were showing up in random larger sizes when viewed on a mobile phone after installing Origin. When clicked, the videos did open properly, at the right size, into another screen with stop, start and pause buttons. However, the look of the videos in post-view themselves had no apparent rhyme or reason except that they were larger than they ought to have been, or compressed oddly so that the top and the bottom had huge black letterbox bars.

I tried turning removing and reinstalling Jetpack; I tried deleting and re-uploading Origin: I tried re-uploading the current www.ads-software.com framework. I attempted these three items at least three times in addition to my three fresh starts (complete with database erasing!) On WP.com, I was using the old video embed code, but after the transfer it didn’t seem to be a problem in the Twenty Eleven or Twenty Twelve themes that I used when I first uploaded my site. (Please remember— I had to upload my site from an original WP.com .xml at least three times in two weeks.)

Photos: The attachments were still attached when I initially uploaded them (three different times) into the standard theme that comes with the www.ads-software.com framework. There was nothing odd about the images, nor did there seem to be anything odd about the upload (esp. given the fact that I had to do it more than once because of my own digital idiocy.) What was especially odd is that any new photo files I’ve added also became unattached while I’ve been using Origin. (I’ve been reattaching images by hand, but there are over 600 images on my site. This will take some doing.)

Videos: My original videos were fine as well. Once I changed over to Origin is when all of my media seemed to become wonky (e.g.— unattached media, e.g. video mobile issues.) One of the contributing factors may be that I was using the old embed codes for videos up until, and just after, my move. However, once I started using the proper oEmbed codes, this change did not seem to produce any difference in the arbitrary oversizing. (Once again, I’ve got over 500 video embeds on my site. I am going through them one-by-one to change them to the current oEmbed settings.)

(An aside: My new problem is that the full RSS feed (no shorted links) will not show any embedded videos at all now. I am not sure how often RSS feeds refresh, so I’m trying to sort that out now.)

Possible Solution: As for my hypothetical original problem with the Origin theme, here’s what I’ve done: I have reinstalled WP again and I have moved to a different theme.

What I am considering doing now is this: I have two or three remaining emergency backup .XMLs of my original site. What I might try to save all recent posts elsewhere and re-upload my site one more time.

The only reason I am loathe to do it is that I keep losing recent comments from my friends and readers. This choice would kind of stink because my readership is already pretty thrown by the general rockiness of the move.

I hate to say it, but while the move was fine (all three or more times), it’s been an awfully funky settling-in period for me, Paulwxp. But, I am learning a great deal, which is good— and it’s an upside I can most certainly attribute to reading threads managed by forum mods such as yourself.

I look forward to your response as well as your suggestions on this matter.

Best wishes,

Courtenay Bluebird.

Dear Paulwpxp,

Thank you so much for your prompt reply and your thorough response.

In regards to the unattached media, the issues with the attachments took place after I completed my transfer, and continued when I began to create posts on my new site.

I initially called my web hosting company because I assumed this problem had something to do with my own configuration (which is thoroughly possible because I am an idiot when it comes to code.)

Video embeds were also coming out oddly sized no matter the configuration, so the web host folks suggested that I contact the theme creator about this embed/media sizing override in the .php framework (more on that in the minute.)

The web host folks were concerned because this did not seem to be a database problem.

In addition, the web hosts folks found something that seemed odd in the configuration of the functions.php of Origin, which happens to have a size override in the code that changes the default sizes for all media attachments and oEmbeds in full widths. (I hope I am saying this correctly. Please do keep in mind that I am an idiot.)

It was their suggestion that I contact the theme creator because the problems seemed consistent enough to merit a question about the code.

When I wrote this question, what I most wanted to know from the theme creator had to do with that specific section of code in the functions.php, which would fall under the theme creator’s purview. And, as I said, I specifically wrote him at the behest of my hosting company.

I realize now that I was unclear in my initial line of questioning, and I am sorry that my frustration got the better of me.

Technically, my transfer from WordPress.com framework to .org took place without a glitch— in no small part to having access to the comprehensive discussions on the www.ads-software.com forums facilitated by people like yourself.

I will make sure to triple-check where I ought to post my questions in the future. And I will have questions because —ohmygosh—I have no idea of what I am doing.

Thanks again for responding so quickly, Paulwxp.

Best wishes,

Courtenay Bluebird.

Okay, four days is enough waiting time for any response from AlienWP.

I’ve chosen another theme with a stronger support response and I will not be using Griden/alienwp.com as a theme developer again.

At this writing, the developer’s last response to any question was 40 days ago.