Will they wait until the next hit to wp-cron.php (+8 hours)? Yes. That’s why it’s important to keep this duration shorter. I usually keep it to every 5 minutes. PS: I know it’s an old question. But, wanted to answer it anyway, if someone else has the same question in the future.
It’s wrong to execute wp_schedule_event in plugin activation and cronjob tag. The correct tag to hook is wp. WordPress internal cron system works by “request-response” method, it checks for scheduled events immediately after any request to the whole system, after checking the scheduled events, it loads next parts of the system. So, hooking scheduling to … Read more
You’re calling a function with variables that are not defined and are required for the function to work correctly. function hourly_function() { $newClass = new newClass(); $var1 = ‘this should’; $var2 = ‘work with’; $var3 = ‘some content’; $newClass->newClass_function($var1, $var2, $var3); } You might want to move those variable to a __construct if ( ! … Read more
You can use wp-cli to execute schedules without the detour via http request. Add in crontab -e. */30 * * * * wp cron event run –path=/path/to/wp-docroot By this you wont run into maximum execution time problems which could be the reason why you schedule execution got stuck.
You might be calling wp-cron.php every 15 minutes, but your cron task is set to happen every 5 minutes! $schedules[“5min”] = array( ‘interval’ => 5*60, ‘display’ => __(‘Once every 5 minutes’)); … wp_schedule_event( time(), ‘5min’, ‘isa_add_every_five_minutes’ ); Change it instead to every 15 minutes
Cron jobs are simply PHP scripts that are controlled by time. If the PHP file is not executed, the cron job will not be executed either. Your option would be to set a cron job in your host’s control panel, to ping a page once in a while. You can ask your host’s support to … Read more
the third argument of wp_schedule_event is a action to call : https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_schedule_event then you need to hook the fonction at the action like this : add_action(“run_update_fecha_cron_job”, “run_update_fecha_cron_job”);
The problem was that iFrame was being stripped, I tried all methods to allow iFrame code butdidn’t work, so I wrote a simple short-code and now it works.
Your problem is caused by your code… Let me comment it line by line, so the problem is more visible… global $post; // <- great, you use global $post variable $comp_args = array( // <- you set params for your query ‘post_type’=>’boat-company’, ‘posts_per_page’=>’-1′, ‘post_status ‘=> ‘publish’, ); $posts_array = get_posts( $comp_args ); // <- you … Read more
You can use the wp_doing_cron() method to determine if the request comes from a cron request or not. if( defined( ‘IN_MAINTENANCE’ ) && IN_MAINTENANCE && $pagenow !== ‘wp-login.php’ && ! is_user_logged_in() && ! wp_doing_cron() ) {