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Dynamic name of cron event

So no, I can’t see a way to grab the name of your action. However, you can pass arguments to your callback: $blog_id = get_current_blog_id(); $cron_name=”import_blog_posts_in_network_daily_”.$blog_id; if ( !wp_next_scheduled( $cron_name) ) { wp_schedule_event( time(), ‘daily’, $cron_name, array($blog_id) ); } add_action( $cron_name, array($this, ‘import_blog_posts_in_network’) ); /* public function import_blog_posts_in_network($blog_id) { // do something for blog $blog_id … Read more

Switch from wp-cron to a server cron job

First, you’ll have to determine an average time to execute your job. Run it once every minute, five times. Use error_log(‘Start’);, and error_log(‘End’); to mark the start time, and the end time. Take an average of all five results and round it up to full seconds. Prepare your job to execute its logic 6 times … Read more

escaping double quotes and percent signs (%) in cron

You have to escape the % signs. They have a special meaning in crontabs: man (5) crontab: Percent-signs (%) in the command, unless escaped with backslash (\), will be changed into newline characters, and all data after the first % will be sent to the command as standard input.

Plugin scheduled event not working

You have to add filter: add_filter( ‘cron_schedules’, ‘minute_interval’ ); Otherwise your function minute_interval is not invoked, interval is not defined, and event doesn’t work.

how to create a cron job that runs on the first day of month [duplicate]

This will run the command foo at 12:00AM on the first of every month 0 0 1 * * /usr/bin/foo This article describes the various fields, look to the bottom of the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron To add this to your cron file, just use the command crontab -e

WordPress cronjob get scheduled but function does not run

I believe you need to use wp_get_current_user() (see https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_current_user ), which will return the current WP user information as an object. From there, you can get the user name (or other parameters). From that page, this example should get you started: $current_user = wp_get_current_user(); /** * @example Safe usage: $current_user = wp_get_current_user(); * if ( … Read more

WordPress Cron job, 302 response

The problem here is a mistake regarding how to schedule a cron event, lets begin with: wp_schedule_event(time(), ‘hourly’, ‘my_schedule_hook’, $args); wp_schedule_event(time(), ‘hourly’, ‘update_user_hours’); Here you are telling WordPress to fire the update_user_hours action/event on an hourly basis. You then hook into this to fire a callback: add_action(‘update_user_hours’, ‘do_this_hourly’); But then, instead of declaring do_this_hourly, for … Read more

Prevent duplicate cron jobs running

There are a couple of programs that automate this feature, take away the annoyance and potential bugs from doing this yourself, and avoid the stale lock problem by using flock behind the scenes, too (which is a risk if you’re just using touch). I’ve used lockrun and lckdo in the past, but now there’s flock(1) … Read more

Job scheduling using crontab, what will happen when computer is shutdown during that time?

When your computer is shut down (or the cron daemon is otherwise not running), cron jobs will not be started. If you have jobs that you would like to run after the fact during those times when the computer is shut down, use anacron. Installed by default, see “man anacron”, “man anacrontab”, or the file … Read more

Cron job for let’s encrypt renewal

Monthly is not frequent enough. This script should run at least weekly, and preferably daily. Remember that certs don’t get renewed unless they are near to expiration, and monthly could cause your existing certs to occasionally be expired already before they get renewed. The name of the program is certbot, which was renamed from letsencrypt. … Read more

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