For instance, since the configured cron tasks will only be run on page load, the task might not be run at the desired interval if there are no visitors. To prevent this, you need to use your operating system’s task scheduler. For this, you need to define define(‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’, true); in your wp-config.php file. After that, … Read more
As Nathan has said in his comment above, the update_events() function needs to be a public function, not a private function: public scope to make that variable/function available from anywhere, other classes and instances of the object. private scope when you want your variable/function to be visible in its own class only. protected scope when … Read more
define(‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’, true); This line disables the default behaviour of WP Cron. Which is being triggered by a user that visits the site. This is bad for a couple of reasons (nobody might visit, tasks are started via apache handler instead of PHP CLI, …). Now, if you have disabled it, you need another way to … Read more
You can do this via wp_cron by using the following, function more_reccurences() { return array( ‘sixhourly’ => array(‘interval’ => 21600, ‘display’ => ‘Every 6 hours’), ); } add_filter(‘cron_schedules’, ‘more_reccurences’); then find the function that does the autopost and call it by if ( !wp_next_scheduled(‘autopost_function’) ) { wp_schedule_event(time(), ‘sixhourly’, ‘autopost_function’); } If you want to use … Read more
You’ll need to set up a cron job that checks once a day to see if the latest post is more than seven days old. So, some where in a plugin file. Schedule a new event. Then hook into that event. Grab the post date, turn it into a unix time stamp, and compare that … Read more
Did you try this plugin? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scheduled-post-delete/ //// Sorry for my mistake, I understood you wrong. Try by pasting this in your functions.php: function auto_cat_remove() { global $post; wp_schedule_single_event( time() + 604800, ‘remove_news_cat_event’, array( $post->ID ) ); } function remove_news_cat_func( $post_id ) { global $wpdb; $category_id = get_cat_ID( ‘news’ ); $wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( “DELETE FROM $wpdb->term_relationships WHERE … Read more
First of all you have to remember how WP cron works. The action will trigger when someone visits your WordPress site, if the scheduled time has passed. So if your site isn’t very crowded at 3am, the cron job won’t start exactly at 3am. (You should use real cron if you really need to run … Read more
Removing / un-scheduling obsolete cron jobs can be achieved using this code snippet. add_action(“init”, “remove_cron_job”); function remove_cron_job() { wp_clear_scheduled_hook(“my_schedule_hook”); } Change the my_schedule_hook to cron’s hook name and add the code in your theme’s function.php file.
The missed schedule warning comes form those lines: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/f884d7973b052c3efe0901bb136b9898ece8aa39/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-posts-list-table.php#L998,L999 It should be independent on any cron event, as the warning is being displayed only in case the current UTC time – post_date_gmt > 0 – there is no other condition (except for post having the future status). In order to debug the issue, check what … Read more
Part 1. The Time != The Timestamp This is your problem: every midnight at Local Timestamp There is no such thing as a local timestamp. Timestamps are not timezoned, it’s not that WP uses UTC, but rather that UTC timestamps just happen to be +0 hours. If you want it to happen at midnight local … Read more