Title: Delayed sharing doesn’t share
Last modified: October 24, 2023

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# Delayed sharing doesn’t share

 *  Resolved [elliekennard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elliekennard/)
 * (@elliekennard)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delayed-sharing-doesnt-share/)
 * Hi there
 * I was having a slight issue with posting with what is probably a conflict with
   Subscribe2 plugin. When the post goes out and my emails are sent out to subscribers
   and it goes onto Mastodon, for a minute or 2, my site goes offline. It comes 
   back fairly quickly, but I thought I could resolve it by putting the delay for
   Mastodon to 300 seconds. I tried today and basically it didn’t share at all. (
   I have now shared manually directly on Mastodon as I couldn’t work out how to
   reshare. I can disable the subscribe2 sending for a second send.)
 * Ellie
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fdelayed-sharing-doesnt-share%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Thread Starter [elliekennard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elliekennard/)
 * (@elliekennard)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delayed-sharing-doesnt-share/#post-17147189)
 * Correction!
 * It did share, after all. I don’t know why Mastodon didn’t show it (I saw it from
   another profile), perhaps the mstdn.ca server was acting up or overwhelmed. I
   will keep the delay setting on, perhaps making it a bit shorter. Sorry to have
   caused confusion.
 *  Plugin Author [Jan Boddez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janboddez/)
 * (@janboddez)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delayed-sharing-doesnt-share/#post-17149906)
 * Could also be WordPress’ “cron” (i.e., scheduling) functionality, which isn’t…
   exact at all. Not by default, at least. So it is absolutely possible that you
   set a delay of 5 minutes and got, e.g., 10 minutes instead.
 * The site going down after publishing _could_ have to do with Mastodon. If you
   post a link (like, to your site), all these different Mastodon servers will fetch
   that link to try to generate a “preview card.” A caching plugin might help with
   that. But it could also be something else entirely.
 *  Thread Starter [elliekennard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elliekennard/)
 * (@elliekennard)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delayed-sharing-doesnt-share/#post-17150500)
 * That makes sense, Jan. Thanks. I can put up with a brief downtime, but I will
   try again, this time setting a delay of 60 seconds and see how it goes.
 * Cheers
 * Ellie

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 * Last reply from: [elliekennard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elliekennard/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delayed-sharing-doesnt-share/#post-17150500)
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