Wordpress “Missed Schedule” Problem Easy Fix

I operate several websites, and more that 90% of them are all based off of wordpress. It is a great piece of blogging software, but with the new release (version 2.9) – it came packed with a very annoying problem that caused me to become very frustrated and irritated with technology. It’s an issue that’s reportadly been around since Wordpress Version 2.7, but it happened to me once i upgraded my blogs to the new version of wordpress.

Anyways, I’ve been searching for a fix on this issue for some time. I found one plug-in that is here, but it didn’t seem to work for me.

So, i looked further and found a very informative thread on the Wordpress Forums that led me to the eventual fix of my problem. I give all the credit to Miqrogroove for his hard work on finding the end-all solution to this bug.

How To Fix The “Missed Schedule” Problem Easily

1. Connect to your wordpress files on your server via cpanel, ftp, plesk, sftp, etc.. (you get the idea)
2. Open up the /wp-includes directory and open up the file http.php
3. Find: $timeout_ms = (int) ceil( 1000 * $r['timeout'] );
4. Replace: $timeout_ms = (int) ceil( 1000 * max($r['timeout'], 1) );
5. Save and upload.

It’s simple to do. If you don’t want to do it yourself, here is the http.php file to download and replace with your current (faulty) http.php file. Enjoy!