One approach (avoiding PHP timeouts) for a local Linux Cron Job (for exact timing) is creating a WP-CLI command (does not run in the browser), like: <?php /* Plugin Name: WP-CLI Foo */ function foo_command( $args ) { // Adjust to your needs … WP_CLI::success( $args[0] ); } WP_CLI::add_command( ‘foo’, ‘foo_command’ ); and the corresponding … Read more
page load is not affected […] and the //METADATA is echoed/displayed immediately? With your current setup, that is not possible. In order to display immediately, you need the data. To get the data, you need to wait. Possible solutions are: Fetch the data before (e.g. via Cron) and populate the DB with the info. -> … Read more
You can pass arguments to the wp_schedule_single_event function: wp_schedule_single_event($newdate, “one_day_before_event”, array($post->ID)); Then if you do an add_action you can say how many arguments it will receive (in this case 1). add_action( ‘one_day_before_event’, ‘some_function’, 10, 1 ); Then in your function you can access the variable: function some_function($post_id) { // Do something with $post_id }
A simple and dynamic way to use WordPress cron would be to set up an action hook for your schedule then only add scheduled events as and when you need them. The events would call a generic function and pass in your specific custom post type details through $args – add_action(‘my_schedule_event’, ‘generic_function’); function set_schedule($post_id) { … Read more
I believe by default these folders are created by user interaction, however, it’s possible that a plugin may be calling a function to create these monthly upload folders. Note that using this function will create a subfolder in your Uploads folder corresponding to the queried month (or current month, if no $time argument is provided), … Read more
For what it’s worth, I found wp-cron processes running under the Processes section in WHM. I killed them and now all wp-cron behavior is back to normal and the emails have stopped.
You have got it wrong. The function wp_schedule_event() schedules a action hook with the third argument. So you will need to call your function on the scheduled hook. Like this – add_action( ‘archive_data’, ‘archive_data’ );
wp_schedule_single_event‘s $timestamp is the time you want the event to occur. This must be in a UNIX timestamp format. WP cron uses UTC/GMT time, not local time. Use time(), which is always GMT in WordPress. time() number of seconds since the Unix Epoch If you want to add a day, you need to add seconds: … Read more
i got this proplem with hight load in my wppit.com so i checked my cpanel and i found the cronjob casue this hiegh load and because WordPress has to work on all sort of different platforms, OS’s and configurations, it can’t rely that there will be a cronjob service on the server that can handle … Read more
There is no way to do that. You need to design a push solution instead of a pull one, and if you can’t and must have to use pull…. well than it sucks to be you :(. Web servers and web software is not designed to be used for “heavy lifting” in such frequent interval. … Read more