Missed Scheduled Posts Publisher by WPBeginner

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 93% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ alexvinasdev

   3mo ago

   Great plugin

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2. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   8mo ago

   My posts kept missing my scheduled time – using this plugin fixed it!

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3. ★★★★★ richardgb

   1.1y ago

   Excellent, free plugin, if you need it, it just works.

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4. ★★★★★ shelleymagnezi

   1.2y ago

   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.

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5. ★★★★★ Trinary Star

   1.2y ago

   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.

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6. ★★★★★ marktfm

   1.3y ago

   I had an issue with one of my sites updating properly and this plugin solved my issue. Love it! This topic was modified 9 months, 3 weeks ago by marktfm.

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7. ★★★★★ orlandorobin

   1.4y ago

   Amazing plugin!! If you deactivate wp-cron this is your go to plugin for post scheduling.

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8. ★★★★★ frodo65

   1.6y ago

   It just works!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.1.1 Updated: CHANGELOG.md Updated: Version Updated: “Tested up to…” constraints Updated: readme.txt 2.1.1
2. — Version 2.1.0 Updated: CHANGELOG.md Updated: Version Updated: “Tested up to…” constraints Updated: readme.txt 2.1.0
3. — Version 2.0.0 Added: Autoload dependencies Added: CHANGELOG.md Added: DocBlocks Added Review CTA Updated: Composer files to work with Composer 2.0+ Updated: .gitignore to allow autoloading Updated: “Tested up to…” constraints Updated: 2.0.0
4. — Version 1.0.1 Improvement: Add a new filter wpb_missed_scheduled_posts_publisher_frequency to allows developers to change the frequency of the plugin checks. Test: Add PHP unit tests for the wpb_missed_scheduled_posts_publisher_freque 1.0.1
5. — Version 1.0.0 Initial plugin release. 1.0.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 3 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-05-02 40K+ → 30K+ down after 2 days in tier
2. 2026-04-30 50K+ → 40K+ down after 1 days in tier
3. 2026-04-29 60K+ → 50K+ down after 89 days in tier
4. 2026-01-30 70K+ → 60K+ down after 190 days in tier
5. 2025-07-24 60K+ → 70K+ up after 37 days in tier
6. 2025-06-17 70K+ → 60K+ down after 46 days in tier
7. 2025-05-02 80K+ → 70K+ down after 99 days in tier
8. 2025-01-23 70K+ → 80K+ up after 70 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Scheduled Posts Issue Fixer 300+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags D
• Snack Missed Schedule 200+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags B
• MWW Scheduled Post Trigger 60K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• Missed Schedule Post Publisher 6K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags A
• W WP-Cron Control 1K+ installs · 3.7★ · 2 shared tags D
• Scheduled Post Guardian 70+ installs · 3.4★ · 2 shared tags D

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Missed Scheduled Posts Publisher by WPBeginner: 30K+ active installs, 4.9★ (59 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/missed-scheduled-posts-publisher