There is an interesting bug where if you edit a published WordPress post with Adobe Contribute it sets the post type to ‘future’ and changes the publish time to several hours in the future. The post disappears – so after Contribute publishes it, it will load the blog’s 404 page as the post it has edited has effectively been unpublished.
I think there is something going on with UTC & local times – maybe Contribute and WP are both adjusting the time and so they decide the publish time needs adjusting. Interestingly, If you open the post in Contribute, then change the post time before publishing, it works fine – so it may be the initial time calculation by Contribute that is breaking.
This has been tested on two separate WordPress 2.3 blogs using Contribute CS3. Strangely, googling this issue has revealed no other case, so maybe it’s specific to my Web Host. Anyone else seen it or know a good reason why this happens?
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Hey I realize this is forever ago, but I wonder if you ever resolved it? I’m having the same issue with Contribute CS4 and WP 2.8 and no amount of fiddling (yet) with the time zone on WP has fixed it.
Sorry, no. I couldn’t fix it in the time I had available, so I basically took the site and turned it into a static site with Contribute tags in it. The client didn’t really know or care either way, so I had the option of doing that. The way WordPress and Contribute worked together (or didn’t) just seemed so flaky that the solution seemed like a liability. It seems like the issues might stem from poor support for internationalisation, and it seemed more likely to be Contribute miscalculating the Date and Time than WordPress, but I didn’t have much time to spend on it. The client owned Contribute and wanted to use it, so WordPress had to go in this case! I use WordPress with lots of sites and I like it a great deal more than Contribute.
Anyway, good luck and drop me a line if you get it fixed!
Believe it or not, I did solve it, on this server, at least (HostGator).
The trick was to add a line to .htaccess on the server specifying the time zone, then setting the time zone the same in WordPress, rebuilding the connection in Contribute (not sure if that was necessary) and ALWAYS clearing out the time stamp in Contribute before publishing.
I’m still not sure if everything will work smoothy and may end up in the same situation you were in — just having to give up on the WordPress part…