Are your scheduled posts missing their publication times? Missed Scheduled Posts Publisher effectively resolves the 'missed scheduled post' …
As of April 2026, Missed Scheduled Posts Publisher by WPBeginner is a WordPress cron plugin with 60K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 58 reviews. It has been downloaded 217K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2021. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 37% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: WP Crontrol.
Do you encounter the “missed scheduled post” error with your scheduled content?
Our plugin specializes in resolving the “missed scheduled post” issue with precision. It ensures that your scheduled posts consistently meet their publication deadlines. This post scheduler plugin has been meticulously crafted for optimal performance, guaranteeing zero impact on your website’s speed and responsiveness.
Not seeing WordPress scheduled posts show up on time?
WordPress relies on something called “WordPress cron jobs” to make these posts go live as scheduled. Think of “cron” as a fancy way of saying “commands that follow a schedule,”…
My posts kept missing my scheduled time – using this plugin fixed it!
Excellent, free plugin, if you need it, it just works.
This plugin helped me since a website that I built was new and not getting traffic, so the future dated posts were not being posted.
I tested it (Version 2.1.0) on a test site running on WordPress 6.6.1. It did not work. I deactivated all the other plugins, but it still did not work. The theme was the official Twenty Twenty-Four Version 1.2.
I tested it on another test site running on WordPress 4.9.26 with Twenty Seventeen. As it is not claimed to be compatible with WordPress 4.9.x, it naturally did not work after deactivation of all other plugins.
So, I deactivated this Missed Scheduled Posts Publisher on both of the test sites, and then installed another plugin called Scheduled Post Trigger. That one works in a different way (it publishes missed scheduled posts when someone visits the site), but it worked.
You had better use that Scheduled Post Trigger, or just write a simple command line as a cron job (the path to the location of the PHP version you use plus a single space and then the path to the wp-cron.php in your WordPress) on your cPanel or any other control panel as long as a cron job is available on your server.
This server cron job probably works, and when it does, it works the way Missed Scheduled Posts Publisher works. It publishes missed scheduled posts not at every 15 minutes but at an interval you specified, like every minute, every five minutes, every 15 minutes, every 30 minutes, every hour, etc. That means it would be more versatile.
I had an issue with one of my sites updating properly and this plugin solved my issue. Love it!
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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