Comments on: Enough is Enough…Stop Blaming WordPress

By: GingerWench

GingerWench — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:01:34 +0000

Good point about time zones. To add to that… daylight savings time adjustments, make them. I recently had to “select a city” in my WP admin to get my times correct again after the DST changes, but it was easy to do. I’ve never had issues with scheduled posts. :)

By: rick

rick — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:08:34 +0000

Sorry, but this still blames WordPress by making it seem like you can’t trust it with scheduled material. You can – you just need to make sure the time zone settings are correct and that you allow for differences in t he blogs timezone and the embargo’s. Blog is set to central time and the embargo say ‘until 9am Pacific’? Deal with the 2 hour difference when you schedule. Can’t add or subtract numbers? Well, that’s still on the blogger, not the CMS.

By: Otto

Otto — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:37:06 +0000

Huh. Never seen this excuse used before…

For the record, WordPress’s scheduled post mechanism works fine. It won’t publish early unless your server has the wrong clock setting. And if that was the case, then the actual clock in WordPress would be wrong *all the time*.

Look on the Settings->General screen to see the current time WordPress thinks it is, and make sure it’s right. This is sorta one of the first things you do when setting up a site.

By: CC

CC — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:48:43 +0000

What’s sad is that you can’t rely on your CMS, if WordPress isn’t working get something that does. Timeliness is a critical part of news publishing.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:36:15 +0000

That’s amazing that someone cannot schedule a post to publish at the correct time, especially one that needs to be handled with great care. It’s not that hard.

By: Holden Page

Holden Page — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:10:22 +0000

Agreed completely! It is a sad excuse and a lot of these bloggers were previously journalists who are well aware of how important it is to Handle such material. And btw I have been using wordpress for a while now and have been under three embargoes.

Guess what? I didn’t follow this advice BUT I knew how to schedule a post at the appropiate time and wordpress has yet to fail me

it is a poor excuse and these bloggers know well before hand if wordpress is pushing out posts at the right time or not

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:31:58 +0000

hallejulah no more blogger bitching