Scheduled posts get a publish rather than an update button when edited

[oandp]

I have several posts scheduled for future dates. I have accidentally posted four of them recently. It is because when I edit the posts to make minor tweaks ahead of publishing using the normal editor, instead of the Update button appearing on changes, a Publish button appears which I just hit without thinking. In order to fix this I need to alter the schedule time (by 1 minute) and then a schedule button appears and I can "reschedule" the post. This has only been happening since the 4.3 upgrade. It seems not to detect that the future schedule date is there.

[oandp]

Like all good bugs it is intermittent. :)

[nofearinc]

I cannot reproduce the issue both with 4.3 on a blog with scheduled entries, and latest trunk running locally with several scheduled posts.

I've tested both the Text and Visual editors, editing from the All Posts view or the Admin Toolbar.

Could you confirm that no plugin is interfering with the standard Core behavior?

[oandp]

I will do some testing. The problem is it is intermittent and that's what catches me. I expect the button to say update and just hit it. Sometimes it has switched to publish.

[wonderboymusic]

Thanks for the report, @oandp. Keep them coming if you find any issues with WordPress, but I can't reproduce this either.

[oandp]

I can't reproduce it now either. Happy to close and I will reopen a new ticket if it reoccurs and I have a reproducible problem.

[oandp]

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[oandp]

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[oandp]

Of course it is now back. i have some screenshots.the first one shows that it is in draft mode and the button says publish rather than schedule even though the schedule date is 3 days in the future. The second shows that I can only get the schedule button up by changing the schedule time. When I do this the button appears as schedule. It is though that under some circumstances the schedule date is just not recognised. This has happened now 4 times where I have actually published the post accidentally. When the post is published it says it was published on the scheduled date which hasn't yet arrived.

[Ipstenu]

@oandp - You have a 'purge from cache' link there. What plugin is that? This almost sounds like an opcache insanity issue.

[oandp]

Replying to Ipstenu:

@oandp - You have a 'purge from cache' link there. What plugin is that? This almost sounds like an opcache insanity issue.

It is W3 Total Cache.

[Ipstenu]

Did you set it up to work with xcache or memcached? This is sort of the case where you'd want to test with all plugins off, but I don't know if you can do that on your live box. It would explain why we don't see it on ours though (I'm not using w3tc)

[swissspidy]

Couldn't be reproduced successfully and might be caused by a plugin or Opcache, not WordPress.