Out of the blue, my post scheduling ceased working a couple a days ago.

I tried everything I found when looking for the answer here at WordPress Answers, but none of the suggestions worked in my case.

Could anyone offer a solution to this? I'm running the latest WordPress version and already tried disabling the plugins.

Out of the blue, my post scheduling ceased working a couple a days ago.

I tried everything I found when looking for the answer here at WordPress Answers, but none of the suggestions worked in my case.

Could anyone offer a solution to this? I'm running the latest WordPress version and already tried disabling the plugins.

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• 1 Has this stopped working completely or is it off by a few hours? Did you make any changes/updates to any files before this happened? – Zach Russell Commented Apr 6, 2013 at 17:39
• Zach, the scheduling had stopped completely, but the problem was solved. Please see the solution with the comment below. Thanks for asking. – user31002 Commented Apr 7, 2013 at 10:16

2 Answers 2

If you are caching (parts of) your site, manually or via a plugin (such as WP Super Cache, for instance), it might have a negative impact on the functionality of wp_cron.
If done via a plugin, disabling it might not suffice, as WP Super Cache for example does not clear the page cache it has created upon deactivation.

If you want to keep caching active, a solution might be to setup a manual Cron Job for the php file /wp-cron.php

Try this: add the following to wp-config.php:

define( 'ALTERNATE_WP_CRON', true );