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WordPress Missed Schedule Fix

Oct 052010

When you have scheduled posts on your wordpress blog and they don’t show up as published when you check, it will show up as missed schedule in the list of posts.

I have had this happen to me on previous versions of WordPress and have fixed it before. WordPress 3.0 was supposed to resolved the “Missed Schedule” problem but it really hasn’t , going by the number of discussions on the wordpress forum.

The Missed schedule has something to do with WordPress cron jobs. Here is a quick and easy solution to this problem. but to resolve this issue we need to edit our cron.php file which is in the wp-includes folder.

To start with fixing missed schedule problem, access your wordpress files using any FTP client. Download or right click and edit (on Filezilla) the cron.php file which is found in the wp-includes folder.

Look for this line in the code:

wp_remote_post( $cron_url, array(‘timeout’ => 0.01, ‘blocking’ => false, ‘sslverify’ => apply_filters(‘https_local_ssl_verify’, true)) );

All you have to do is to change the timeout to a higher value . I changed it to 10 sec, by simply replacing 0.01 with 10.

‘timeout’ => 10, ‘blocking’ => false

Save the file and reupload it back to your server. Done!

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How to clone a WordPress blog in 32 seconds

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Oct 032010

If you use wordpress, you should check out this
new tool, WP Twin by my friend Wil Mattos.

It clones your ENTIRE blog in seconds,
so you can move it to anywhere you want… back
it up…

Or if you do a lot of blog set ups, you can
automate them and save a ton of time.

Also, it comes with some “already cloned” stuff
you can “one click” and deploy. Nice.

Check it out.

Click the link below now: WP Twin

Use WP Twin to Backup your wordpress blog

This is also the ultimate backup tool. takes
a second to back up a blog completely.

The real cool feature though is “deploying”
your clones – this will save you hundreds
of hours.

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Problems uploading images in WP 2.7

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Jul 102009

I have been trying to upload images to a site which is on WordPress 2.7 using the Arthemia theme. The problem I was having using the media uploader was that after I uploaded the image, it went to the gallery. I could see that the file had uploaded to the uploads folder. The only problem was that when I went to insert it into the post,the screen went blank and nothing happened.

This was obviously a common problem and there are numerous posts about this on the net and support forum. One of the issues might be incompatible plugins which interfere with the adding images process. These have been identified as:

NextGen Gallery
Bad behaviour
WP-Amazon
CommentLuv

There are probably more but these are teh most common ones so far.

Unfortunately, even after disabling all the plugins, it did not help . I could still not upload any images.

The next thing to try was to make the htaccess changes as suggested by this post.

I also tried the suggestions on here Nothing worked.

In the end, I decided that it was something to do with the theme and the version of wordpress. I was using 2.7. Am now upgrading to 2.8 and switching to a theme where it is tried and tested with lots of support. Sometimes you just can’t fight the code, make your own life easier and go with the simplest option.

How to increase the items in Edit Post Page in WP2.7

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Jun 112009

I was struggling to bulk edit my posts to add tags and reassign categories with each search only showing a maximum of 15 items. It was taking me ages to scroll through multiple pages to update my posts. There had to be a simple solution to change this setting in WordPress 2.7. It took a lot of searching to find the hack to fix this, but here it is:

1. Open the file manager in your Hosting control panel.
2. Find the this file wp-admin/includes/post.php
3. You need to find this code

wp(”post_type=post&what_to_show=posts$post_status_q&posts_per_page=15&order=$order&orderby=$orderby”);

Its about the 805th line in wordpress 2.7, line number might be different in different versions, so better find (CTRL+F) the line of code above in wp-admin/includes/post.php

Replace 15 in posts_per_page=15 by some higher number you like, I made it 50.

4. Save the file and exit. Voila, much less work to bulk edit now.

The good and bad of WordPress 2.7

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Dec 232008

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I have been working on a new site on WP 2.7 and there are some gripes. The way the have laid out the new page takes a while to get used to. The side bar navigation is a bit better but there is a lot of scrolling and does take time to find what you need.

I do like the new quick edit function under Manage Posts. This does make it easier to edit categories and tags.

New sticky post feature is a welcome addition as the old WP-Sticky plugin never worked for me and the manual tweak of changing post dates and times was way to fiddly to be worth it.

One big gripe is the lost of the edit post slug function which used to be under the Post Title. This has since disappeared, from my version at least. I can’t find it anywhere which is truly annoying.

The Polldaddy addition is a nice touch which simplifies adding polls to your blog but takes a bit of tweaking and set up.

I did find a great post identifying some of the new features here in more detail.

Am still exploring and am still trying to get over the loss of usage of some of my favorite plugins, making blogging a great deal more hassle. If you have any great finds or tips on WP2.7, please share.