godthor on "[Plugin: Jetpack by WordPress.com] Publicize Does Not Work"

Jeremy/all,

I wanted to chime in on this because I've been working with Cena from Jetpack on an issue that's similar that has arisen for me as well that involves publicizing my posts including the subscribers. Up until 4.2.1 Jetpack, I operated just fine. Things worked smoothly on all my postings. I usually schedule postings out about seven days ahead. Meaning one per day, usually around 6pm. Lately I've been changing that just to see what happens. But regardless, I never had a single issue other than the rare case that my connection to Facebook needed to be refreshed.

In other words, up until 4.2.1 I did nothing with my blog other than write my articles, schedule them, and they all would post just fine with no issues. I like things simple so I don't tweak my blog's functionality EVER. If it's working I leave it alone. But then after 4.2.1 updated, my Managed Word Press through GoDaddy updated my software automatically to 4.6. I still operated for a single day under 4.2.1 Jetpack and suddenly my blog was posting on the web like usual but none of the social media went out, nor did my subscribers get their email (I'm one of them).

So I disconnected everything (Jetpack, social media, etc.) and reconnected and checked it again and also updated to 4.2.2 Jetpack and still got the same issue. Blog posts on the web when someone goes to my site, but the social media doesn't go out nor the subscribers list UNTIL I log into my WordPress dashboard. Then, for some odd reason it goes out.

I've gone through several days now of testing on this and have done everything on my end to figure out it's not on my end. I do not have any plugins anymore that affect my functionality of my blog postings, other than Jetpack. I deactivated the ones that might have had any affect in other words. What remains for plugins are silly things like search widgets and such that are only for the GUI interface of my blog.

So the bottom line is that since 4.2.1 and Word Press 4.6 I have not been able to get the scheduled blog postings to work either the way it used to. My work around is either to Publish each day manually my blogs (which does work and does send out the subscribers and the social media just fine) or I have to manually push the scheduled forward once it reaches missed schedule.

But I want to reiterate, I have not made any changes to my blog's functionality in a very long time. My blog ran smoothly with no issues (save the occasional FB connection refresh) for the past year. But since WordPress 4.6 and Jetpack 4.2.1 combination came around, schedule postings for social media and subscribers haven't worked. Only regularly publicize.

My site is http://www.thetwelfthstep.com.

Thanks,
Andrew