Yeah I’ve been having a terrible time with posts and Twitter lately. I post something and it goes 404 on me. Sometimes I got “Missed Schedule” and if you get that it post will remind in limbo until you flip it to published. I’ve tried posting into the future, nope. Not only did the post not publish on time, but WordPress told all the other parts of the machine, like WordTwit, that it was published so pointing to a post URL that isn’t published gets you … yep 404 not found.
After more reading I found that lots of people started to have this problem after moving to 2.9. I read that 2.9.1 was supposed to fix this, but it didn’t for me. I also read that the dev team was unable to reproduce it (I can, 100%, so if you want to try…). Through my reading I found the aptly named plugin “Missed Scheduled” and it looks (cross-fingers, knock on wood) like this might work. So this post is both test and lesson learned.
Here’s the lesson here, for all nascent and experienced WP users: Don’t forget to search the forums.
WordPress is community-based software. A lot of the fixes and solutions come from the one or two people who can consistently reproduce a bug that is only intermittent for others…and share all the information they can about the errors they are getting.
No doubt, this frustrating. This bug drove me nuts. I thought it was a problem with DreamHost’s time keeping. While the clock on my server does tend to lose time and start being a few minutes slow after a while, that really shouldn’t matter. The folks at DreamHost have been awesome as I’ve been thinking it was them. I didn’t see this problem in any of my testing with WP2.9 so I didn’t think that something in WP could have been at fault. Lesson learned.
One more thing I noticed about the forums, people are very helpful but too many people b*tch and complain about “this bug should have been caught…”. You know, the developers (many of whom I know and are friends) work damn hard on WP. They also try to test as well as they can. Developers need us, beta testers, to really test. There is just no way possible for the WP dev team to hit all the possible scenarios that could cause a bug to surface. It’s just a mathematical impossibility.
I read one post in one of the forum threads that I was reading pointing out that very fact. That WP devs need people to test, try, and report problems. I wish I had run into the bugs before…now that I have I’ll let some of the folks I know on the dev team know that they can play on my sandbox blog to see what’s up.
Now, let’s hope this post goes out, as intended, right away, and there are no 404s.
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