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This was all working for me until I applied a WP upgrade (2.5.x I think). Since then, subsequent updates have been applied and the problem still occurs for me across 3 different blog sites that I admin.

Some people are having no problem at all, so I think it’s going to be a tricky one for WP folk to find and fix. In all probability, it’s going to be a combination of factors which causes the problem to manifest.

I know next to nothing about WP coding or the machinations of CRON services, but I’m willing to bet that an obscure configuration of things is screwing this for those of us affected, and that once affected the problem is solid (whatever causes it isn’t reset by subsequent upgrades).

I’ve all but stopped blogging because of this problem. There have been various ‘solutions’ put forward here, but none which work on a consistent basis for everyone. I’m not holding my breath. It’s a shame, but this really is a blocker for me using WP.

If I can provide any information about this problem to WP, I will if asked, but I’m not techy at all so questions will need to be put in the simplest of terms…

Sorted – I had some space characters after the closing ?> in the wp-config.php file.

Removing those and retrying brought up the ‘Upgrade Now’ screen when going to my-url/wp-admin and all now appears to be well!

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I’ve also noticed that any post that is scheduled within the next 24 hours gets published *immediately* and doesn’t go to Scheduled status.

I was attempting the CRON.PHP fix referred to above and didn’t want to wait a day to see if it worked, so set the publish date/time to an hour+10 mins ahead (to allow for possible DST discrepancies). Further experimentation showed that the limit was 24 hours. Over that, and it goes to ‘Scheduled’ as required (but still doesn’t flip to ‘Published’).

Same problem here too since upgrading to 2.5.1 from 2.3. Posts Schedule but never switch over to Published status, and the clock seems to run in reverse after the scheduled time (eg 8 minutes after scheduled time the Manage page says ‘8 minutes time’ rather than ‘8 minutes ago’).

This is rendering WordPress almost less than useless for me at the moment. Has anyone come up with a solution as yet? (wfunderberg: what’s the WP_SECURITY module? Is this a Plug-in you had, or part of the Core?)

Are any Developers watching this thread at all?