# Automation to schedule the publishing of my site not working? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask the community\ **Tags:** automations, wix-studio, question\ **Created:** [May 28, 2025, 8:39am UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/automation-to-schedule-the-publishing-of-my-site-not-working/71138 "2025-05-28T08:39:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Matt\_Heartman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wix/user_avatar/forum.wixstudio.com/matt_heartman/32/108176_2.png) [@Matt\_Heartman](https://forum.wixstudio.com/u/Matt_Heartman)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 8:39am UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/automation-to-schedule-the-publishing-of-my-site-not-working/71138/1 "2025-05-28T08:39:04Z")
I’m using Wix Studio and I am trying to schedule the publishing of my site, a new feature that was released today. First I edited the site and left it unpublished. I then created a new automation with the first trigger to schedule the time, next I chose the action to publish site. After the chosen time passed I checked the site and found it was still unpublished even though the automation was shown to be triggered in the activity pane. Here is a video of what I tried [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4Cy9uTnKMM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4Cy9uTnKMM) Did I do it correctly and it simply doesn’t work yet or what have I done wrong? Thanks for reading. ---
**Author:** ![noahlovell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wix/user_avatar/forum.wixstudio.com/noahlovell/32/118920_2.png) [@noahlovell](https://forum.wixstudio.com/u/noahlovell)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 9:20am UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/automation-to-schedule-the-publishing-of-my-site-not-working/71138/2 "2025-05-28T09:20:00Z")
I could be wrong - but you might need to have published it at least once for the automation action to run correctly. If that doesn’t work, then I think we’ll need to open a bug report following the steps [here](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/wix-studio-how-to-report-a-bug/51007). ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Heartman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wix/user_avatar/forum.wixstudio.com/matt_heartman/32/108176_2.png) [@Matt\_Heartman](https://forum.wixstudio.com/u/Matt_Heartman)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/automation-to-schedule-the-publishing-of-my-site-not-working/71138/3 "2025-05-28T09:27:41Z")
I was hoping that I could make changes to the site during the day and it would auto publish at night. I cant publish after I work on the site as it is a cinema site and the timetable wouldn’t be correct. Needs to publish at night. ---
**Author:** ![noahlovell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wix/user_avatar/forum.wixstudio.com/noahlovell/32/118920_2.png) [@noahlovell](https://forum.wixstudio.com/u/noahlovell)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 9:44am UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/automation-to-schedule-the-publishing-of-my-site-not-working/71138/4 "2025-05-28T09:44:59Z")
> [@Matt\_Heartman](#): > > First I edited the site and left it unpublished For sure - I read this as “the site has never been published before”. But yes - that’s how it should work (publish at night in your case) ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Heartman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wix/user_avatar/forum.wixstudio.com/matt_heartman/32/108176_2.png) [@Matt\_Heartman](https://forum.wixstudio.com/u/Matt_Heartman)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 9:50am UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/automation-to-schedule-the-publishing-of-my-site-not-working/71138/5 "2025-05-28T09:50:00Z")
I unpublished the site and reset the automation. It did publish the site but not any of the changes I made. So it is partially working. Bug reported. ---
**Author:** ![noahlovell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wix/user_avatar/forum.wixstudio.com/noahlovell/32/118920_2.png) [@noahlovell](https://forum.wixstudio.com/u/noahlovell)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/automation-to-schedule-the-publishing-of-my-site-not-working/71138/6 "2025-05-28T12:30:53Z")
> [@Matt\_Heartman](#): > > Bug reported. Thank you 🙌 - when you find a solution, be sure to loop back around with it 🙂