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
After you’ve added the constant in wp-config.php defined(‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’) or define(‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’, true); WP-CLI And assuming you have your config.yml setup correctly, you can ommit the –path flag when calling cron run. wp cron event run –due-now [<hook>…] One or more hooks to run. [–due-now] Run all hooks due right now. [–all] Run all hooks. To run … Read more
I was hoping that I’d get more community feedback, but overall based on my research, the best option was to create a separate image of my application using the same code based, specifically tailored to run wp-cli, using the built-in crond service to ensure that the crons were running according to a proper cron schedule. … Read more
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This code is causing your replace_authors_name_attributes() function to run every time a page is visited on your site, so yes, your hooks are running: schedule_authors_consistency() { if (!wp_next_scheduled(‘consistent_author’)) { wp_schedule_single_event(time(), ‘consistent_author’); } } add_action(‘init’, ‘schedule_authors_consistency’); Since you do this three times and your code queries every product each time this is going to absolutely hammer … Read more
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SiteGround here. It’s great that you’re exploring running “wp cron event run” as a SiteGround cron job. To ensure a smooth process, we recommend following the steps outlined in our tutorial on how to replace WordPress Cron with a real Cron job. It provides detailed instructions to help you set up your SiteGround cron job … Read more