A Book Obsession..: Come on Blogger!!

Come on Blogger!!

Apr 27, 2012 by Kt Clapsadl

So I'm sure many of you have noticed that the scheduling function on Blogger hasn't been working properly for over a week now. Honestly, I am at my wits end. They said they rolled out a fix for it. Nope still doesn't work. Then I read around and people were saying it was working on newly written posts, but not the old scheduled ones. So you know what I did? I copy and pasted each individual post I had written into a new post. (Considering, I am mostly scheduled out through the entire month of May, this took me a good long while.) So I figured everything would be fixed. So when I got up this morning and saw that my review of Black Dawn had not posted as scheduled, the words coming out of my mouth were not the prettiest. So I'm writing this post now, and scheduling it for a few minutes later to see what happens.

I have to tell you, Wordpress is looking more and more attractive. Honestly if GFC still worked over there I would have switched a long time ago.

What are your thoughts on this issue? Is it as big of a problem to you guys as it is me, since I rely on that scheduling feature so much, or are you more of a pantser when it comes to posting?

*UPDATE: Okay tell me something, why does this scheduled post work, but not others? I'm about ready to tear out my hair!!!

*UPDATE 4/30: Scheduling is still not working, not even on newly written posts :(

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parajunkee 64p · 679 weeks ago

I made the switch a few months back -- the longer you wait the harder it is. I love it now though. I am self-hosted though, it makes all the difference. I wouldn't recommend wordpress.com

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ABook_Obsession 81p · 679 weeks ago

I'm just worried because it took so long to build up my readership to this point. I don't want to have to start all over again. Honestly my time is becoming more and more limited. I wish there was some way to auto-convert GFC readers to RSS.

Also my imaging is personally customized from a free template I used, and I would have no idea of how to transfer that over to wordpress.

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Smash_Attack 103p · 678 weeks ago

While I do love WordPress and have no regrets for making the switch, I definitely lost readers. However, they are slowly finding their way back to me and really, they will find their way (back) to you because of your content. :)

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ABook_Obsession 81p · 678 weeks ago

It is still very scary. I'm not big on change. :(

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becca · 679 weeks ago

I'm like ABook I've worked hard to get my blog where I want it and now this scheduling thing is crazy and so is the new look very frustrated

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ABook_Obsession 81p · 678 weeks ago

I switched to the new look a while ago, so I've had time to get used to that. I wonder if it was the mandatory switch that caused all of the issues though.

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Arianne · 679 weeks ago

I don't have any issues with scheduled posts... hmm.. maybe coz I haven't scheduled ahead of time for the past week... hope it gets fixed for u soon

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ABook_Obsession 81p · 678 weeks ago

I hope so too. I'm at my wits end!

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Must Love Books · 679 weeks ago

I personally can't stand wordpress. I've had a few problems with Blogger but I still love it. I love how I don't have to sign in every time I want to comment on blogs, and I think that the layouts are nicer on blogger than on other blogs. I also haven't had any problems with scheduled posts but it's been a while since I've done one.

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ABook_Obsession 81p · 678 weeks ago

I write all my posts very far in advance, so I rely heavily on scheduling. Also, with my kiddos sleep schedule, sleep can be precious, so most days I can't get to the computer until 10 or later, and I hate having my post go live so late.

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Sandy · 679 weeks ago

I don't do a lot of post scheduling and when I do it's usually a day in advance but I do also schedule meme posts a week or two in advance and I haven't had any problem with scheduling posts, I didn't even know there was an issue :/. I have been thinking about wordpress more than usual lately because everytime I look up ways to customize my blog I see it noted in many tutorials that the feature is already a standard for wordpress. And it just seems like it would be a lot easier to have a blog in wordpress if they have a lot more standard features, but I don't know how hard it would be to adapt my template from wordpress to blogger and so I just stick with what I know.

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ABook_Obsession 81p · 678 weeks ago

If I decide to take the plunge to wordpress, I'll hire someone to do the coding. I mean I'll keep the imaging I have, but I just don't have the time or energy to start over on my own with new template coding.

I'm really hesitant to switch because of the GFC issue. But also, it has taken me countless hours to get this template tweaked just the way I like it. I basically took the original template, and re-wrote and customized everything from top to bottom. Since my understanding of HTML is only moderate, there was A LOT of trial and error.

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Nicole A · 679 weeks ago

I've had a few problems with scheduled posts, mostly reviews. I tend to schedule those in advance and most of my other posts I do the night before. But it is horrible when you realize a scheduled post didn't go up and therefor had to be delayed.
My recent post went up as scheduled so I have no clue what's going on.

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ABook_Obsession 81p · 678 weeks ago

Yeah, this post worked for me properly. But the ones that matter don't. I just don't get it. At all.

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Mel@thedailyprophecy · 678 weeks ago

Luckily, I don't need schedules right now. But in the summer I'm going on vacation for three weeks, so I'm planning to make a lot of blogs. I hope that blogspot is doing fine then.. I hope they are going to fix it soon for you!

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Bookaholic 101p · 678 weeks ago

I had problems with scheduling too but I figured it out pretty quickly. There was a scheduling glitch for about a week and a half. Maybe not even that long. So all the posts that you already had scheduled during that week looks scheduled to you but they are actually in draft form to blogger. What this means is that even though the glitch is fixed, all those posts are still not scheduled to post. This one probably posted because you must have gone back into it for some reason whether to edit or look at it and pushed the publish button which make it act the same way that it looks to you (does that make sense?). Essentially, you need to go into each post and push the publish button (with the schedule time and date the same) and it fixes it. It was annoying me too because I schedule out in advance as well.

I thought about switching to self-hosted but you know I'm still not ready for that. I think I'm a little more patient with blogger because it's free. I'm getting a service for nothing. And yes, I want it to be reliable, but I don't expect it to be perfect. For me this is a hobby, once I start putting money into it and I need more reliability and perfection, then I'll switch and pay for that service. I'm also concerned that I will stop blogging and have to pay to keep my website up (because of all the hardwork) instead of letting it just be on the web for people to enjoy. I'm only been book blogging for a year and half and I'm still not sure what the future will hold.

P.S. This has to be the longest comment I've ever posted in my life.

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ABook_Obsession 81p · 678 weeks ago

I actually did what you said about the republish each post. It didn't work. Then I even copy and pasted each one into a new post and deleted the old. Still nothing. Unless I only schedule something only minutes away it doesn't work. As far as free, I do pay for my domain. It's only 10 a year, but still.P.s. I love long comments :)

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Bookaholic 101p · 678 weeks ago

Oh wow! When did you try republishing each one? I'm assuming sometime soon. My scheduling started to mess up on April 19th and my scheduling worked normally on April 27th. I'm interested in this certainly because I think scheduling issues would be a big blow for me because that is how I manage my blog. I'll look around and see what others are saying and try to help figure out what is going on.

Oh and I didn't mean paying for the domain name. I meant paying for the blogging service. Blogger is a free blog service. If you self-host, you still have to pay for the domain name and the hosting. And you can buy your domain from anyone. In fact, if you leave blogger, you don't have to continue to purchase your domain name from blogger (if you even did that in the first place). I agree. I pay the 10 dollars a year but not willing to do much more than that right now. But that's just me and my student status talking.

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ABook_Obsession 81p · 678 weeks ago

Hrm I think I tried the republishing thing on Wednesday. Then when my post didn't show up Thursday morning, I did the copy paste new post thing. Still didn't show up on Friday. My next scheduled post is tomorrow at 7am. Wish me luck that it works.

Ah.. I gotcha about the hosting. Honestly, I haven't looked into what all it costs. If I even decide to switch I would need to see if it was possible to keep my imaging the same. I put way too much time and effort into designing things they way I liked to start over now. Plus I just got business cards printed to match these images any way. Also I totally get not being willing to spend more money on the blog b.c. of student status. I here you on that. I think I'll be taking courses until the end of time, and those constant education expenses are killer. With the kiddos being still too young for school I can't take a full load and still give them the attention they deserve.

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Bookaholic 101p · 678 weeks ago

So it didn't work today? I really have no idea. I've asked around but my other blogger friends no longer have the problem either. This is crappy.

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ABook_Obsession 81p · 678 weeks ago

I've gotten it to work on a hit or miss basis. *shrugs* I can't figure out what makes the posts different, but since some are working, hopefully the bugs will fix all worked out soon.

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