Archive for May, 2011

Missed Schedule – Wordpress

Sunday, May 8th, 2011

If you are having a Missed Schedule issue with post, it would be mostly the Timezone issue [Time mismatch with local time] which you can fix by just changing the time zone in the PHP settings and setting the correct time in the wordpress admin General settings.

wp-cron.php is resposible for the Schedule post module. wp-crone.php is called in intervals to check for scheduled post on a server with the help of Cron job module.

So what was the issue I faced – It is really funny and i should laugh :D   at myself if i think of it.

Missed Schedule was happening all time, fixed the time zone and checked all other stuffs and it was OK, even if i manually call the wp-cron.php, the missed schedule will get published. So where the HELL was the issue :roll:

Analysis : It was a Windows Server[IIS] and it dont have Cron Job module :evil: WTF !  :? . Seriously never thought of that.

Solution : Use the Task Scheduler to create a entry and point it to wp-cron.php with certain interval or you can use a Plugin called  WP Missed Schedule Fix Future Posts Scheduled Failed :lol:


Missed Schedule can also be caused if you have errors in wp-cron.php. So if you have such issue  better call it in a browser and check if it works fine [www.urblogname.com/wp-cron.php]. If you get a blank white screen it is working fine.


500 Internal Server Error – Wordpress !!

Sunday, May 8th, 2011

Tried a new theme on a live wordpress server , Sigh! allgone. :(

Mozilla firefox was just giving a white screen with no messages.
Google chrome showed 500 Internal Server Error message <3 ahh!.

Analysis : I coded a theme which was based on Wordpress 3 + and  was trying to enable  it on Wordpress 2.8 platform, which made the whole website offline, ya even the admin panel was not available

Solution :  Delete the new theme from FTP and upgrade it to v 3+ and enable it again


Most of the 500 Internal Server errors on wordpress might be due to

  • .htaccess
  • php memorylimit
  • File mod