Scheduled posts fail to publish on time
Scheduled posts stop publishing on time, often after a WordPress update, and stay in the scheduled or planned state until someone re-saves them by hand.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
6 public reports · first reported 6 November 2023 · last reported 29 December 2025
What's going wrong
Across several site owners and WordPress versions, scheduled posts fail to go live at their set time.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 6 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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