Mye,  a blogger friend of mine informed me about the WordPress scheduled post problem and asked for my help.  She experienced it when she installed the latest WordPresss 2.9 version. The installation was successful except that, her setup of scheduled post were not publishing.

I know how important scheduled posts are specially for those who are into Project 365 (it’s a project wherein you post about your daily activities or take a pictures of what you are doing) , and don’t forget the members of Adgitize who are trying to post every day in order to get more points ( and more earnings).

For those who haven’t experienced a missed WordPress post schedule, here’s how it looks like:

The normal status of a post are published, scheduled, pending review and draft . As you can see from the captured screen the status of the post is “Missed Schedule”.

How To Fix The WordPress Scheduled Post Problem

1. Good news! WordPress developers were alerted of this bug as soon as they uploaded the 2.9. If you installed this version, all you have to do is install the WordPress 2.9.1. It fixed this missed schedule problem and more.
2. If you are not using WP 2.9 and yet you are experiencing this problem, I recommend that you use a plugin.

2.1 Scheduled MIA – a WordPress plugin that looks for posts with a date in the past and that still have post_status=future.
2.2. Missed Schedule – It runs automatically every 15 minutes and will publish “future” posts in database.

I just want to tell you my dear readers, that not all bugs can be seen by the developers of WordPress.  Remember that WordPress is an open source application written by hundreds of contributors. The least we can do is be patient  and report the bugs encountered. WordPress needs your help too!

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If you rely on your blog for the food in your table, I highly recommend that “never upgrade without doing a local test”. Setting up a local test is very easy, but this is not our topic for today. I might just blog about that in the future.

Happy Blogging 2010 everyone!

As promised, WordPress 2.9 was released as scheduled. The new version, code named “Carmen” named in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae is now available for download.

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This is not just an upgrade but a major release. This new version comes with over 500 bug fixes and enhancements which makes it a recommended download and install.

Over 140 developers contributed on this released version.

New Features include:

1. Undo – you can now undo or unerase a post or comment if you accidentally deleted them. No more annoying  “are you sure” messages on every delete.

2. Built-in image editor – no more Adobe Photoshop for me.  This is a basic image editor that  allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images

3. Batch plugin update – It’s now possible to upgrade up to 10 plugins at the same time, and it will check the compatibility too. No more surprises if a plugin will work or not

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4. Oembed(Easier video embeds) – allows you to just paste a URL on your post and WordPress will magically turn it into the proper embed code. It supports popular sites such as YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv (and more in the next release).

5. Improved theme and plugin Editor - When you’re editing files in the theme and plugin editors it remembers your location and takes you back to the exact line after you save.

6. Automatic repair database – This is one of my favorite enhancements. Just enable it in your wp-config.php file by adding define(‘WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, true).

7. Sidebar description – put a nice description  on your sidebar on what they do.

You can upgrade easily from your WordPress Dashboard by going to Tools > Upgrade, or you can download from WordPress.org

Here’s short video summarizing some of the cool things about the new released version: