Consistent “Misschedule” Error
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Hello, I would like to report a “Misschedule” issue that has been happening constantly lately on my site (I am not sure is anyone else is experiencing this). About a year or so ago, there was a period of time that I remember noticing that posts would “Misschedule” whenever I would set them to post at a specific time. But after a while, the issue didn’t seem to happen anymore.
The scheduling has been working well up until about a week ago and as of now, the issue is back and it only seems to be affecting the schedules of new posts. Many of the posts that I scheduled prior to this issue happening, still post on schedule, but all of the new posts that I had scheduled to post, starting from sometime last week and lasting further into this week, have all been consistently Misscheduling.
I am using the free basic version of WordPress and I have no additional plugins installed apart from the ones that automatically come with the free/basic plan, and I have not made any changes to the general settings (the core settings that are found in the admin and dashboard panel) on my site.
I would greatly appreciate any help or advice <3The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi, would you be able to share a little more about the misscheduling? For example for the newer posts, are you finding that they are scheduled for an earlier or later time than you originally set?
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Hi thank you very much for your response. When a post is misscheduled. it does not post at all. I typically only notice that it missed the schedule when it does not post at the time it was supposed to. Then whenever I check the posts category in the dashboard to see the status of the post, it usually is marked “Miss Scheduled” in bold red letters.
Sometimes posts would miss schedule a few seconds or a few minutes after the original time that they were set to post but they would not be marked as miss scheduled; they are more like slight delays. In this particular case, when they are indicated and marked as “miss scheduled” by the system, they do not post. I would usually have to edit the post and manually post it, if not it would remain unpublished unless I notice the issue and act on it. -
Hello there,
Do you have the name of a post that didn’t publish as scheduled? We’ll take a closer look at that particular.
Looking at your site, it looks like the storage has been exceeded on the site: https://aktionkilla.wordpress.com/wp-admin/upload.php – I’m wondering if this may be a reason, somewhere along the line.
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Yes, the storage is used up and it has been for months way before this issue started happening, but I store and host my files in other places and just “link” to them for the time being.
The scheduling issues started happening only from about November 21st, and has continued since. I am not sure if this is due to an update to the site overall. Most of those posts are already posted since I had to post them manually, but later I will make another post and schedule it, then take a screenshot and show you so that you can see the error message the system gives plus the name of the post etc. -
later I will make another post and schedule it, then take a screenshot and show you so that you can see the error message the system gives plus the name of the post etc.Thanks. That will be really helpful with getting things sorted.
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Thank you all so much for your patience on the matter. I am replying once more to give you more feedback on the issue and to provide the screenshots and photos related to the issue as I said I would.
I would have preferred to respond alot sooner but I wanted to let things play out in the usual routine and low and behold the issue actually did happen again.
The screenshot below is a post that I scheduled to post today at 12:03 AM:
This following screenshot shows that the post was Missed Scheduled and did not post at 12:03 AM on the 2nd of December 2022 like it was supposed too, and in Date column, you can see where the system marked the post as “Missed schedule” in red text:
I had to publish the topic manually otherwise it would have remained unpublished as a Missed scheduled post. I am once again sorry for the late response but I hope that you get a better understanding of what the issue is with this example that I have given.
Posts being Missed and Scheduled like this has only started happening again from last week (I said “again” since there was a time that it first started happening briefly about a year or so ago but then stopped). Before that, the posts would always post on time for the most part or just a few seconds or about a minute after the original schedule, which is an issue that I also made note of in the following topic: https://aktionkilla.wordpress.com/2022/04/13/scheduling/
If you all want any more details, I am more than willing to provide them. -
“Posts being Missed and Scheduled” <— that was a grammatical error but I can't edit the pots to correct it.
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Thanks for the example. Just a quick question; typically a scheduled post should publish when a visitor views the site, either at or after the scheduled time – if you yourself visit your site when a post is due to be published, do you find that it does not publish after all?
(There’s a note about it in the guide here: https://wordpress.com/support/schedule-a-post-or-page/#scheduling )
You mentioned that it was some, but not all, posts that are scheduled which are not publishing at their assigned time, is that correct? I’m wondering if perhaps one or more of your regular visitors can have changed the time when they check your site. Did you notice if the posts which did not publish had any specific time “range” (for example, if it’s at a time when more of your visitors may be asleep)?
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Hello, I am happy to receive your response and to see your interest in the matter, and I did have a read of the page in the link that you provided. So thank you so much for that aswell.
Generally, if I have a post scheduled to publish at 6AM (I am just using random times as an example), and I am on my site at that time, I will see the post at 6AM since that is the time that it was scheduled to be released and the system managed to publish the post at the correct time without fail.
So even if I personally don’t use my site around that time, anyone who is on it at the time that the post was scheduled to be released, or anyone who visits after the scheduled release-time or release-date, would and should be able to see it and read it. But if there is a technical error and a Missed schedule occurs, the post just sits in the moderation queue and will not post or publish until it is managed by an administrator and then manually posted. But that’s the thing, by the time I manually post the topic, it is way after the time that I originally wanted and preferred it to be posted.
When I mentioned that some posts are posting on schedule but not all of them, I was pointing out that the issue only seems to be affecting new posts, not the posts that I had already scheduled in the weeks and days before the issue started happening.
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I’m wondering if this is a bit of an edge case. Typically when we see this, getting a little extra traffic to the site solves the problem, but you have plenty of visitors.
Have you ever had this many scheduled posts at one time? Right now you have 447. We don’t necessarily have a defined upper limit on those that I’m aware of, but I have seen things get squirrelly with too many sticky posts, for example, and I wonder if something similar is happening here. I’m wondering if you scheduled several over a short period, and whether that has any impact.
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Thanks for your treasured response.
It would be interesting if some of the possibilities proposed in this topic actually have any connection. My storage on the site is full but the first timeline of “missed scheduled” posts actually happened in a period of time when the storage on my site was not full. But even the times when posts didn’t “missed schedule” in this particular manner, they would still sometimes post a few seconds after or about a minute or-so after the original scheduled time. So I am wondering if those instances were actually an indication of a much deeper issue that is manifesting in the way that the latest round of miss scheduled errors are playing out.
Now, there is also the possibility that it could be due to the high number of scheduled posts I have, but even around the first time that I noticed posts actually missed scheduled, I did not have a high volume of posts scheduled to release so I don’t know if this is a case of system limitations, a system malfunction, a bug/glitch, issues rated to global updates for the WordPress.com site overall etc etc, but it was working fine for a very long time and then it just came back lol. -
So when you first noticed posts missing schedules, those resolved after a few minutes, right? That would be consistent with the traffic-based issue I mentioned.
I do still sort of suspect the high number of scheduled posts (more than 365 — the highest I’ve ever seen!) so another option if you don’t mind is to go ahead and manually publish the next several without scheduling more, to see if the problem dissipates a bit.
RE: running out of space, we could test that by upgrading. Would you be interested? The personal plan would get rid of ads, too, and give you options for paid content, a tip jar, and so on.
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When I first noticed that posts were missed-scheduling by being posted a few seconds or minutes after the original time that was set, it was when I was online at the time that one was supposed to post and I realized that it did not post at the exact time that I scheduled it for.
Before that, I was checking my site hours after the posts had been already up on the site, so to me it appeared as if everything worked out fine. It’s only when I just so happened to be using my site around the time that one of my scheduled topics was supposed to be published, is then I noticed that it actually didn’t post at the time specified. Over a period of time, I noticed that this was a reoccuring theme, where, sometimes the posts would post at or on the exact time specified, but other times they would post a few seconds or a few minutes late. But I figured that was probably due to “latency” issues on the server’s end and was a little tolerant of it for a while since the is pretty much minor.
But this particular “Missed schedule” error actually does not publish the posts if [seemingly] the post was scheduled to publish just a “few” hours before the scheduled time, and I suspect that if I were to schedule a post at least 24-hours or days in advance, it will post at the time it was scheduled to, which would explain why the recent ones that I have been scheduling to post just within a few hours from the time they were made, are “Miss scheduling:, but the ones that I scheduled days and weeks in advance are actually posting without this particular “Missed scheduled” error but I am not 100% sure, I would have to test that out.
Hahaha, yup the high volume of scheduled posts may have exposed some cracks or weaknesses in the equation somehow. I would really like to also try out if lowering it substantially would make a difference, but they are scheduled to post in a particular pattern at specific times in specific order, so I can’t post them casually to test out the aspect that you have propsoed on a timely manner, I will have to wait until they eventually get lower in order to see what impact that would have but that would take a series long time because I have an on-going comic series featured on my site and it’s constantly being updated with content which accounts for the whooping number of scheduled post that you noticed
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I appreciate your insights about the plans — it sounds very enticing and I may consider these interesting options. I could try “deleting” some files from my media library and test to see the effects it may have on the scheduling tip, but thanks or listening and thanks to all of you for your help, advice, and tips. Atleast I brought the issue to your attention and hopefully, it can be resolved on a technical level if it otherwise turns out to be an internal issue with the wordpress engine. I will give an update is there is any interesting development. -
But this particular “Missed schedule” error actually does not publish the posts if [seemingly] the post was scheduled to publish just a “few” hours before the scheduled time, and I suspect that if I were to schedule a post at least 24-hours or days in advance, it will post at the time it was scheduled to, which would explain why the recent ones that I have been scheduling to post just within a few hours from the time they were made, are “Miss scheduling:, but the ones that I scheduled days and weeks in advance are actually posting without this particular “Missed scheduled” error but I am not 100% sure, I would have to test that out.
That’s interesting – so you’re finding that the ones you’ve scheduled a while ago are still posting as you’d expect at their scheduled times, but any more recently-scheduled posts are not doing so? I’m not entirely sure if that would mean that the amount of time in advance that they’re scheduled is relevant, but it could be worth testing!
I’ll see if I can schedule a couple of posts on a test site too, though it may take a little time to test.
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“That’s interesting – so you’re finding that the ones you’ve scheduled a while ago are still posting as you’d expect at their scheduled times, but any more recently-scheduled posts are not doing so? “<br><br>Yes, that is exactly the point.<br><br>——————-<br>”I’m not entirely sure if that would mean that the amount of time in advance that they’re scheduled is relevant, but it could be worth testing!”<br><br>Yes, most issues of this kind are hard to rationalize. Often, we just only notice the “patterns”. That’s the thing, this shouldn’t be an issue because the schedule post feature should perform as it was designed to. If it’s not functioning as it’s designed to when it’s actually being used correctly, then this shows that something is wrong and that there is some other kind of interference that should not occur.<br><br>The amount of time can be relevant in terms of some kind of indicator that the system was able to “recalibrate” and recover or “reset” from some kind of issue or malfunction. But as you said, I am not 100% sure how relevant that is. I only notice a constant pattern in that area.
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When I sent the post just now, the formatting got messed up, sorry about that. This one is tidier (you can delete the bad version if you want since I can’t edit the post).<br><br>[YOU]: “That’s interesting – so you’re finding that the ones you’ve scheduled a while ago are still posting as you’d expect at their scheduled times, but any more recently-scheduled posts are not doing so? “<br><br>[ME]: Yes, that is exactly the point.<br><br>[YOU]: “I’m not entirely sure if that would mean that the amount of time in advance that they’re scheduled is relevant, but it could be worth testing!”<br><br>[ME]: Yes, most issues of this kind are hard to rationalize. Often, we just only notice the “patterns”. That’s the thing, this shouldn’t be an issue because the schedule post feature should perform as it was designed to. If it’s not functioning as it’s designed to when it’s actually being used correctly, then this shows that something is wrong and that there is some other kind of interference that should not occur.<br><br>The amount of time can be relevant in terms of some kind of indicator that the system was able to “recalibrate” and recover or “reset” from some kind of issue or malfunction. But as you said, I am not 100% sure how relevant that is. I only notice a constant pattern in that area.
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Your paraphrasing of my sentiments is correct.
Your uncertainty about the possibility that I proposed is understandable. Most issues of this kind are hard to rationalize. Often, we just only notice the “patterns”.
That’s the thing, this shouldn’t be an issue because the schedule post feature should perform as it was designed to. If it’s not functioning as it’s designed to when it’s actually being used correctly, then this shows that something is wrong and that there is some other kind of interference that should not occur (bug/glitch/etc).
The amount of time can be relevant in terms of some kind of indicator that the system was able to “recalibrate” and recover or “reset” from some kind of issue or malfunction. But as you said, I am not 100% sure how relevant that is. I only notice a constant pattern in that area.
If this post doesn’t post properly this time; I give up
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Just to note, I tested scheduling two posts on my site. The site doesn’t receive traffic as it’s private, so I needed to visit it myself to trigger the publishing, but it did work – both for the post which I scheduled with only about one hour’s advance, and the one I scheduled for a little earlier today.
I had to set myself a reminder to go to the site each time, but once I loaded the page anew, the scheduled post for that time did appear.
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I am happy to hear about your finding, it seems like, in circumstances where the feature is really being pushed, that appears to be when we run into issues, so it might appear fine is we only have two posts or so scheduled, but if it something we use alot more and regularly over a period of time then that could be when we see the flaws start to come out.
I can update you that I did test out the thing about the posts being scheduled days in advance successfully post at their allotted times, whereas the ones scheduled to post within a few hours are the ones mostly being affected by the error, by scheduling a test post about 2 days ago to post today, and that post did successfully post today on schedule: https://aktionkilla.wordpress.com/2022/12/06/test-sc/
So there is definitely something going on there.
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