As far as WP and WP CLI is concerned it will make zero difference, and that is why it does not tell you to use one or the other. Both will work, there are no WordPress based advantages or disadvantages that make one more correct than the other. All the things that matter in this … Read more
WP Cron is not running
There are a number of issues here: every_minute doesn’t exist as a cron schedule, so while you’ve successfully scheduled the cron job, WordPress doesn’t know when to run it. keep in mind that WP Cron isn’t precise, if nobody visits your site it won’t run, so it won’t run every minute unless your site is … Read more
change the time of the default wordpress crons
WP-Cron missing tasks after moving to server job
The default supported recurrences are ‘hourly’, ‘twicedaily’, ‘daily’, and ‘weekly’. From the WordPress definition https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_get_schedules/ If you’re using wp_schedule_event(time(), ‘every_minute’, ‘recurring_event’);, you may need to change the recurrence parameter to one of the correct options mentioned above. Refer to the documentation for guidance. To check and trigger your Cron function, you can use a plugin … Read more
If you want to trigger the WP Cron without having to wait for a visitor to visit your website, you can setup a cronjob to “visit” your cron file at http://www.example.com/wp-cron.php after a duration, like every 15 minutes. If you use cPanel, you can follow this guide If your server does not support cron job, … Read more
This happens because this code: if ( ! wp_next_scheduled( ‘myprefix_cron_hook’ ) ) { wp_schedule_event( time(), ‘every_one_hoursinwp’, ‘myprefix_cron_hook’,array(42)); } Is the same as this code: if ( ! wp_next_scheduled( ‘myprefix_cron_hook’, array() ) ) { wp_schedule_event( time(), ‘every_one_hoursinwp’, ‘myprefix_cron_hook’,array(42)); } And while you have lots of cron jobs with array(42), there is no next scheduled cron job … Read more
Or, you could use WP-CLI which was developed for scenarios like these. After a short installation like this $ curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar $ chmod +x wp-cli.phar $ sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp You can run your scheduled tasks like so $ wp cron event run –due-now –path=/var/www/mywebsite.com/ or via crontab (every 5mins) */5 * * * … Read more
There is no downside for running WP CRON using the server’s cron jobs. In fact this is the recommended practice. According to Official WordPress Plugin Development Document: WP-Cron does not run continuously, which can be an issue if there are critical tasks that must run on time. There is an easy solution for this. Simply … Read more