It’s not possible with just WordPress to schedule code to run in the background at a specific time. WordPress, like most (if not all) PHP web applications, only actually runs in response to a URL being accessed, and a request being made to the server. For a scheduled event to run at a certain time, … Read more
You should be including this file: include( “/some/path/wordpress/wp-config.php” ); That’ll get you to where you can use the wp_insert_post() function. If this is a multi-site blog, make sure to use the switch_to_blog() function first.
Although both of your options (that is, using transients or using a cron job) are viable, I’m a fan of using transients unless the dataset is exceptionally large or if there is some need to automate the process. Without seeing much of your current code, it’s difficult to give a working example. Nonetheless, if you … Read more
When you run things on the CLI (which is pretty much where Cronjob and runwhen jobs are running), then you don’t have access to some things like some server or request variable contents, etc. What you need to do is fire up WP Core. Else you won’t have access to the full WP API. One … Read more
You don’t necessarily need to use the WP Cron API for this. Instead you could modify your existing code to make use of WP Transients. Transients are basically Options that expire after a set time. You can wrap your current scrape process in an if statement that checks for the existence of the stored transient. … Read more
wp_cron operates on intervals and there is no interval that will hit exactly the first day and the 15th of every month. You could run your wp-cron job every day and check the date, similar to this but with a simple callback like: cron_callback_wpse_113675() { $date = date(‘d’); if (’01’ == $date || ’15’ == … Read more
I posted a way to accomplish this here. Essentially, my suggestion is to create a sort of API for your WP installation to maintain orthogonality between your systems.
“Error establishing database connection” when trying to run script through crontab
For example about 12:00 it should run 3 tasks. If You use wp-cron it will start when someone visit Your page about 12:00. ( Here is small complication because when two users visit Your page exactly in the same moment cron can start twice and do everything twice ). However someone opens our page round … Read more
Scheduling posts on wordpress adds wrong seconds as post_date