This is the intended use of the WP_CRON_LOCK_TIMEOUT constant. When WordPress is loaded, it checks to see if a cron job is running (if cron is locked). If cron is not locked, it will try to create a lock – if the lock timeout has not been reached, no lock can be acquired and cron … Read more
Answer couldn’t be simpler. As pointed out by Otto at the wp-hackers list, problem was me not setting post_date_gmt when using wp_update_post(). Final code looks like this: if ( $post_date < strtotime( “tomorrow” ) ) { $status=”publish”; $newpostdata[‘post_status’] = $status; $newpostdata[‘post_date’] = date( ‘Y-m-d H:i:s’, $post_date ); // Also pass ‘post_date_gmt’ so that WP plays … Read more
My approach is to create an hourly cron event that loops through all the draft status posts and checks for the publish month – date and hour saved in post_meta and publishes if scheduled date is not in the future. A publish date and time select meta box is added to the publishing div that … Read more
Here is a very rough block of code that should get you started. What it does is look for the most recent “future” or “publish” post and if that value is less than 1 hour different from the latest scheduled post, it schedules the current post to one hour plus the “most recent” time found. … Read more
Since a picture is worth a thousand words: 1) Click “Edit” next to “Publish Immediately” 2) Change the date 3) Click “OK”