Wordpress Posts with ‘Missed Schedule’ error

Blogging Tips February 16th, 2009

If you have read my earlier post on how to post in advance and you have hit an error message as above, this is a guide on how to fix the problem. If you have schedule a post in advance of date published but having an error message “Missed Schedule”, you are either having web server settings issue or you are using WordPress 2.7

Basically, this is an error of different time in web server and WordPress time since it must match in order to get the post published correctly. If you are using WordPress 2.7, you can overcome this issue by modify the wp-cron.php in root folder.

Open the file in notepad and search for the line with the code update_option(‘doing_cron’, 0);
Change it to //update_option(‘doing_cron’, 0);
Save the file and upload to the web server.

For WordPress 2.6 version, you can go to Bloghighlight to view the detail step by step instructions. Please make sure you have ready my post on “Practice to Write Posts In Advance” before continue