Title: automatically unpublished posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# automatically unpublished posts

 *  [uzed_creative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uzed_creative/)
 * (@uzed_creative)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-unpublished-posts/)
 * Hi there,
 * we’re a business-blog posting 4-5 posts per day which are mostly automatically
   posted (works fine most of the time)
 * but sometimes (i can’t figure out when or why this happens) posts getting unpublished(
   return to “draft”) after they we’re visible (published)…
 * any suggestions? where could i start with debugging?
 * i’d be so happy if any of you could help me cause this is really freakin’ me 
   out!!
 * — Kim

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-unpublished-posts/#post-2767929)
 * Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
 * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause
   problems.
 *  Thread Starter [uzed_creative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uzed_creative/)
 * (@uzed_creative)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-unpublished-posts/#post-2767980)
 * hi esmi,
 * the problem is, i can’t reproduce this behavior – sometimes all works fine for
   weeks. on other days it happens with every post we publish.
 * there is no post-modifying plugin activated or anything which could cause a problem
   like this one.
 * i could imagine it has something to do with W3 Total Cache. on the other side
   caching is disabled for logged in users… so caching isn’t related to editing 
   a post
 * perhaps it has something to do with wp-cron?
 * is there anything like a “post-log”… something like the apache-access.log for
   things, wordpress does with posts?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-unpublished-posts/#post-2767981)
 * > i could imagine it has something to do with W3 Total Cach
 * So try disabling it for a while.
 * > perhaps it has something to do with wp-cron?
 * There is no “unpublish” cron job in WP core that I’m aware of.
 * > is there anything like a “post-log”… something like the apache-access.log for
   > things, wordpress does with posts?
 * Nope – sorry.
 *  Thread Starter [uzed_creative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uzed_creative/)
 * (@uzed_creative)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-unpublished-posts/#post-2768057)
 * just got the information from the “editing-guys” that it isn’t just unpublishing…
   sometimes wordpress seems to “forget” images or paragraphs in posts which once
   were there…
 * seems to be really a caching problem, which would make it really hard to solve…
 * i’ll try with disabling the w3tc-plugin now… also i’m trying to write some kind
   of “what-happens-with-posts”-analyzer
 * thank you for your help… i’ll let you know, if anything solved the problem 🙂
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-unpublished-posts/#post-2768076)
 * Have you checked the database after one of these “disappearances” to see if that
   object is still in the database?

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 * Last activity: [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-unpublished-posts/#post-2768076)
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